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Description
On Writing Well has been praised for its sound advice, its clarity and the warmth of its style. It is a book for everybody who wants to learn how to write or who needs to do some writing to get through the day, as almost everybody does in the age of e-mail and the Internet. Whether you want... read more
Memorable Quotes
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“Clutter is the disease of American writing”
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“If your job is to write every day, you learn to do it like any other job”
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“I think a sentence is a fine thing to put a preposition at the end of”
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“It takes courage to be such a writer, but it is out of such courage that revered and influential journalists are born”
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“Most nonfiction writers will do well to cling to the ropes of simplicity and clarity”
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“Nobody becomes Tom Wolfe overnight, not even Tom Wolfe”
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“Rewriting is the essence of writing well: it's where the game is won or lost”
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“The most important sentence in any article is the first one”
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“Ultimately the product that any writer has to sell is not the subject being written about, but who he or she is”
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“Very few sentences come out right the first time, or even the third time”
First Sentence
A school in Connecticut once held "a day devoted to the arts," and I was asked if I would come and talk about writing as a vocation.
Table of Contents
Authors & Contributors
- William Knowlton Zinsser (Author)
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