Books Quote by William Zinsser

Good writing is really meaningful, and it's one of the - it's still one of the best tools we have to get and capture…

— Robin Sloan

That is as true for fiction or non-fiction. The writer has to really know their subject. It is really important to remember that the…

— Michael Scott

Writing is always personal in some way but not always in a direct way.

— Suzanne Vega

So I think a writer should write what he loves, the people he relates to.

— David E. Kelley

I don't think the author should make the reader do that much work to remember who somebody is.

— Kevin J. Anderson

Only a very specific kind of writer keeps their reader in mind while working. Such writers don't want to irk their readers; they don't…

— Sarnath Banerjee

If the writer were more like a reader, he’d be a reader, not a writer. It’s as uncomplicated as that.

— Julian Barnes

Good writing must stay open to the questions and not fall prey to the pull of a polemic, otherwise, words simply become predictable, sentimental,…

— Terry Tempest Williams

The things I write are for those who are willing to accept a new relationship between the reader and the author.

— Jerzy Kosinski

“The reader is more important than the writer but the writer should never write just for the reader---authentic writing is a must yet, without…

— Alexander M. Zoltai

It's so much easier to write for a person in your life than to write for some imagined readership, so you write something that's…

— Jonah Peretti

Good writers have two things in common: they prefer to be understood rather than admired; and they do not write for knowing and over-acute…

— Friedrich Nietzsche