Quotes by : William Zinsser

It wont do to say that the reader is too dumb or too lazy to keep pace with the train of thought. If....

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

Good writing is good writing, whatever form it takes and whatever we call it.

But the secret of good writing is to strip every sentence to its cleanest components. Every word that....

Vulnerability has a strength of its own.

It wont do to say that the reader is too dumb or too lazy to keep pace with the train of thought. If....

I never think of him as a scholar assaulting me with how much he knows, but as a teacher eager to share....

Most writers sow adjectives almost unconsciously into the soil of their prose to make it more lush and....

The final advantage is the same that applies in every other competitive venture. If you would like to....

But apart from these lazinesses of logic, what makes the story so tired is the failure of the writer....