If you would like to write better than everybody else, you have to want to write better than … - William Zinsser

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The writer isn't made in a vacuum. Writers are witnesses. The reason we need writers is because we need witnesses to this terrifying century.

William Zinsser

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.

Craft, Defend, Different, Editors, Pride, Writing

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Clear thinking becomes clear writing; one can't exist without the other.

Clear, Exist, Thinking, Writing

Writers can write to affirm and to celebrate, or they can write to debunk and destroy; the choice is ours.

Affirm, Celebrate, Choices, Write, Writing

The most important sentence in any article is the first one. If it doesn't induce the reader to proceed to the second sentence, your article is dead. And if the second sentence doesn't induce him to continue to the third sentence, it's equally dead.

Firsts, Important, Induce, Reader, Sentence

Never let anything go out into the world that you don't understand.

Anything Goes, Let, Understand, World

If you lose the dullards back in the dust, that's where they belong. You don't want them anyway.

Anyway, Belong, Dust, Ifs, Want