Clutter Quote by William Zinsser

Clutter is the disease of American writing. We are a society strangling in unnecessary words, circular constructions, pompous frills, and meaningless jargon.

— William Zinsser

“Rewriting is the essence of writing well:”

— William Zinsser

Writing is hard work. A clear sentence is no accident. Very few sentences come out right the first time, or even the third time.…

— William Zinsser

All writing is ultimately a question of solving a problem.

— William Zinsser

Ultimately the product that any writer has to sell is not the subject being written about, but who he or she is.

— William Zinsser

Rewriting is the essence of writing well: it's where the game is won or lost. The idea is hard to accept. We all have…

— William Zinsser

Nobody told all the new e-mail writers that the essence of writing is rewriting. Just because they are writing with ease and enjoyment doesn't…

— William Zinsser

Rewriting is the essence of writing well - where the game is won or lost.

— William Zinsser

My work holds up the mirror to hypocrisy, which puts me in a tradition of American writing that reaches back to Nathaniel Hawthorne.

— Ishmael Reed

As one of the first editors at 'Outside' magazine in 1975, it was my contention that most American writing going back to James Fennimore…

— Tim Cahill

“All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn. American writing comes from that. There was nothing before. There…

— Hemingway, Ernest

If you just sit there, and you're a writer, you're bound to write crap. A lot of American writing is crap. And a lot…

— Jamaica Kincaid