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

Fighting clutter is like fighting weeds-the writer is always slightly behind,

— William Zinsser

Wordiness is a sickness of American writing. Too many words dilute and blur ideas.

— Eric Hoffer

Writing is a mysterious activity.

— Susan Sontag

I think when you write, you should call it a "writing spree." I don't write every day, and I don't write regularly.

— Etgar Keret

Of all fatiguing, futile, empty trades, the worst, I suppose, is writing about writing.

— Hilaire Belloc

Writing is seeing. It is paying attention.

— Kate DiCamillo

I think all writing is a disease. You can't stop it.

— William Carlos Williams

Writing is taking a risk, and it is actually fighting invisible and invincible enemies. They are over-confidence, stupidity, expectation and narcissism.

— Andrea Hirata

Often I think writing is a sheer paring away of oneself leaving always something thinner, barer, more meagre.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

Writing is a way to shape out visible and invisible, in myself as well as in the world.

— Eppu Nuotio

“All writing is filth”

— Antonin Artaud