Asks Quote by William Zinsser

You can solve most of your writing problems if you stop after every sentence and ask: what does the reader need to know next?

— William Zinsser

Writing is a process of discovery of what you really do know. You can't limit yourself in advance to what you know, because you…

— Walter Murch

“Writers write. Period. No matter how hard it is. One word after another. Sometimes the sentences spill quickly from our fingertips, and other times…

— Debra Dixon

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

To write, I think it is very important to read. The more you read, the more you know the techniques of writing.

— Sudha Murty

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

Writing is thinking. To write well is to think clearly. That's why it's so hard.

— David McCullough

Writing requires the concentration of the writer, demands that nothing else be done except that.

— Carlos Fuentes

Once the grammar has been learned, writing is simply talking on paper and in time learning what not to say.

— Beryl Bainbridge

The best part of writing is thinking about the story. And then everything else takes a lot of discipline.

— Kareem Mortimer

Whenever you talk about writing I think you have to remember that it all has a big question mark over it - every word…

— George Saunders

Keep your paragraphs short. Writing is visual - it catches the eye before it has a chance to catch the brain.

— William Zinsser