Quotes about writ
writing thinking trying
Writing organizes and clarifies our thoughts. Writing is how we think our way into a subject and make it our own. Writing enables us to find out what we know-and what we don't know-about whatever we're trying to learn. William Zinsser
writing jargon disease
Clutter is the disease of American writing,
writing tasks shapes
One of underestimated tasks in nonfiction writing is to impose narrative shape on an unwieldy mass of material.
writing thinking process
Writing and learning and thinking are the same process.
writing want helping
There are all kinds of writers and all kinds of methods, and any method that helps you to say what you want to say is the right method for you.
writing artist piano
Not everybody has a talent for painting, or for the piano, or for dance. But we can write our way into the artist's head and into his problems and solutions. Or we can go there with another writer.
writing simplicity humanity
My four articles of faith: clarity, simplicity, brevity and humanity.
writing blueprints
Writing is no respecter of blueprints.
writing good-writing
Good writing is lean and confident.
writing ratios direct
Writing improves in direct ratio to the things we can keep out of it that shouldn't be there.
writing voice quality
Finding a voice that your readers will enjoy is largely a matter of taste. Saying that isn't much help-taste is a quality so intangible that it can't even be defined. But we know it when we meet it.
writing stronger gone
Many of us were taught that no sentence should begin with "but." If that's what you learned, unlearn it - there's no stronger word at the start. It announces a total contrast with what has gone before, and the reader is thereby primed for the change.
writing thinking paper
Writing is thinking on paper. Anyone who thinks clearly should be able to write clearly-about any subject at all.
writing
You learn to write by writing.
writing secret sentences
The secret of good writing is to strip every sentence to its cleanest components,
writing essence games
Rewriting is the essence of writing well - where the game is won or lost.
writing doe needs
You can solve most of your writing problems if you stop after every sentence and ask: what does the reader need to know next?
writing pride sight
If you would like to write better than everybody else, you have to want to write better than everybody else. You must take an obsessive pride in the smallest details of your craft. And you must be willing to defend what you've written against the various middlemen - editors, agents and publishers - whose sights may be different from yours, whose standards not so high.
writing men want
The best way to learn to write is to study the work of the men and women who are doing the kind of writing you want to do.
writing people style
Few people realize how badly they write. Nobody has shown them how much excess or murkiness has crept into their style.
writing choices celebrate
Writers can write to affirm and to celebrate, or they can write to debunk and destroy; the choice is ours.
writing two people
A writer is obviously at his most natural and relaxed when he writes in the first person. Writing is a personal transaction between two people, conducted on paper, and the transaction will go well to the extent that it retains its humanity.
writing problem writing-well
All writing is ultimately a question of solving a problem.
writing-well subjects sells
Ultimately the product that any writer has to sell is not the subject being written about, but who he or she is.
writing
A writer will do anything to avoid the act of writing.
writing people hardest
If writing seems hard, it's because it is hard. It's one of the hardest things people do.
writing alive written
To defend what you've written is a sign that you are alive.
writing voice musical
My commodity as a writer, whatever I'm writing about, is me. And your commodity is you. Don't alter your voice to fit the subject. Develop one voice that readers will recognize when they hear it on the page, a voice that's enjoyable not only in its musical line but in its avoidance of sounds that would cheapen its tone: breeziness and condescension and clichés.
writing clear sentences
A clear sentence is no accident.
writing numbers way
The only way to learn to write is to force yourself to produce a certain number of words on a regular basis.
writing thinking clear
Clear thinking becomes clear writing; one can't exist without the other.
writing people ego
I almost always urge people to write in the first person. ... Writing is an act of ego and you might as well admit it.
writing jargon disease
Clutter is the disease of American writing. We are a society strangling in unnecessary words, circular constructions, pompous frills, and meaningless jargon.