📖On writing well: the classic guide to writing nonfiction
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- authors
- Zinsser, William
- year
- 2012
- url
- https://www.amazon.com/Writing-Well-30th-Anniversary-Nonfiction-ebook/dp/B0090RVGW0/
- p.5 “Utimately the product that any writer has to sell is not the subject being written about, but who he or she is.”
- p.9 “If you find that writing is hard, it’s because it is hard.”
- p.21 use I
- p.22 “Writing is an act of ego, and you might as well admit it. Use its energy to keep yourself going.”
- p.24 you are writing for yourself. put in whatever you like and don’t try to imagine mass audience
- p.25 ^ This only concerns the larger issue of what you’re trying to say and whether the reader likes you. There is still no excuse for losing readers through sloppy workmanship
- p.25 mechanical vs creative act
- p.25 “Never say anything in writing that you wouldn’t comfortably say in conversation.”
- p.41 “I think a sentence is a fine thing to put a preposition at the end of.”
- p.52 your writing should leave the reader with one provocative thought
- p.91 “there is no subject you don’t have permission to write about”