Essence Quote by William Zinsser

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

— 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

Writing needs to be practiced; there is a limit to how much can be gleaned from a teacher or a manual. The true essence…

— Jasper Fforde

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

Clutter is the disease of American writing,

— William Zinsser

The book really comes to life in the rewriting.

— Philip Roth

Writing well isn't just a question of winsome expression, but of having found something big and true to say and having found the right…

— Adam Gopnik

My prescription for writer's block is to face the fact that there is no such thing… Writing well is difficult, but one can always…

— Thomas Mallon

I don't believe in writer's block, writing well is very easy; it's writing horribly, the horrible work necessary to do to get to writing…

— Dean Young