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History should be written as philosophy.

The explanation has been written already in the three words that were many enough, and plain enough,...

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Don't annoy your readers by over-explaining--by telling them something they already know or can figu...

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William ZinsserOn Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction

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

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William ZinsserOn Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction

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

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William ZinsserOn Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction

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

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William ZinsserOn Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction

But on the question of who you're writing for, don't be eager to please.

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William ZinsserOn Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction

I'm often dismayed by the sludge I see appearing on my screen if I approach writing as a task--the d...

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William ZinsserOn Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction

There are some writers who sweep us along so strongly in their current of energy--Normal mailer, Tom...

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William ZinsserOn Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction

The writer, his eye on the finish line, never gave enough thought to how to run the race.

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William ZinsserOn Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction

Those places where sadness and misery abound are favoured settings for stories of ghosts and apparit...

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Her direct stare probed, as if the story of my life were written in my eyes in a few succinct lines ...

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Books aren't written - they're rewritten. Including your own. It is one of the hardest things to acc...

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