Writers who think THEY are being criticized when only that writing is being criticized are beyond a teacher's … - William Zinsser

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Total surrender to the demands of the human spirit: be attentive, be intelligent, be reasonable, be responsible, be in love.

William Zinsser

Writers who think THEY are being criticized when only that writing is being criticized are beyond a teacher's reach. Writing can only be learned when a writer coldly separates himself from what he has written and looks at it with the objectivity of a plumber examining a newly piped bathroom to see if he got all the joints tight.

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

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

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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.

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

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

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