Curiosity Quote by William Zinsser Download Open image “Editors are licensed to be curious.” — William Zinsser ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.5 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Curiosity Curious Editors Writing
There are two kinds of editors, those who correct your copy and those who say it's wonderful. — Theodore White Copy Share Image
I wonder if these editors, why they're not writers sometimes, because they know so much about writing. — Hampton Fancher Copy Share Image
Editors are extremely fallible people, all of them. Don't put too much trust in them. — Maxwell Perkins Copy Share Image
One person can't know or like everything, so an editor needs collaborators whose opinions and expertise he values and can trust. — Toni Jerrman Copy Share Image
I believe an editor's job is to help a writer sound like himself or herself. — Robert Christgau Copy Share Image
The first duty of an editor is to gauge the sentiment of his reader, and then to tell them what they like to believe. — Thorstein Veblen Copy Share Image
“But the secret of good writing is to strip every sentence to its cleanest components. Every words that serves no function, every long word… — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
No one has something original or important to say will willing we run the risk of being misunderstood; people who write obscurely are either… — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
Avoid the ecstatic adjectives that occupy such disproportionate space in every critic's quiver - words like "enthralling" and "luminous." — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
Scholarship hath no fury like that of a language purist faced with sludge. — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
Clutter is the official language used by corporations to hide their mistakes. — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
Keep your paragraphs short. Writing is visual - it catches the eye before it has a chance to catch the brain. — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
Never hesitate to imitate another writer - every person learning a craft or an art needs models. Eventually you'll find your own voice and… — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
Abraham Lincoln and Winston Churchill rode to glory on the back of the strong declarative sentence. — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
Writing organizes and clarifies our thoughts. Writing is how we think our way into a subject and make it our own. Writing enables us… — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
Rewriting is the essence of writing well - where the game is won or lost. — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
Clear thinking becomes clear writing; one can't exist without the other. — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
I'm a strange mixture of my mother's curiosity; my father, who grew up the son of the manse in a Presbyterian family, who had… — Rupert Murdoch Copy Share Image
We have no clear ideas of the agency of [demonic] spirits, nor is it necessary. The Scripture says little to satisfy our curiosity; but… — John Newton Copy Share Image
The four Cs of making dreams come true: Curiosity, Courage, Consistency, Confidence. — Walt Disney Copy Share Image
“So curious you must be. Like little calves poking their heads through the fence with big eyes and a headful of curiosity.” — Carew Papritz Copy Share Image
“[T]he question "What is everything?" has no meaning, even though it seems to be profound. [...] The point is, perhaps, that I am not… — Alan W. Watts Copy Share Image
By profession a biologist, [Thomas Henry Huxley] covered in fact the whole field of the exact sciences, and then bulged through its four fences.… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
How do we know that we have a right to kill creatures that we are so little above, as dogs, for our curiosity or… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
There is nothing so carking as the pangs of unsatisfied curiosity. — Gertrude Atherton Copy Share Image
Curiosity is the essence of human existence. 'Who are we? Where are we? Where do we come from? Where are we going?'... I don't… — Anonymous Copy Share Image