Quotes by : William Zinsser

Look for the clutter in your writing and prune it ruthlessly. Be grateful for everything you can throw....

Was the whole matter of aptitudes a myth – a copout used by people like me to avoid subjects that would....

Not everybody has a talent for painting, or for the piano, or for dance. But we can write our way into....

It's no fun to think about infinity and no cinche to write about it. Again, it helps to look for some....

Even a poor translator couldn't kill a style that moves with such narrative clarity.

Writing is such a lonely work that I try to keep myself cheered up.

One of underestimated tasks in nonfiction writing is to impose narrative shape on an unwieldy mass of....

Good writing has an aliveness that keeps the reader reading from one paragraph to the next, and it's....

Learn to enjoy this tidying process. I don't like to write; I like to have written. But I love to rewrite.....

Less is more.