(8 quotes found)
“Four basic premises of writing: clarity, brevity, simplicity, and humanity.”
William Zinsser
“Writing and learning and thinking are the same process”
“Writing is thinking on paper.”
“Clutter is the disease of American writing. We are a society strangling in unnecessary words, circular constructions, pompous frills and meaningless jargon.”
“Writing is a craft not an art.”
“There's no sentence that's too short in the eyes of God.”
“It is a fitting irony that under Richard Nixon, 'launder' became a dirty word”
“Hard writing makes easy reading. Easy writing makes hard reading.”
