"Writing improves in direct ratio to the things we can keep out of it that shouldn't be there."

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Source : William Zinsser (2012). “On Writing Well, 30th Anniversary Edition: An Informal Guide to Writing Nonfiction”, p.12, Harper Collins

William Zinsser

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“All life is linked together in such a way that no part of the chain is unimportant. Frequently, upon the action of some of these minute beings depends the material success or failure of a great commonwealth.”

Source : John Henry Comstock (1897). “Insect Life: An Introduction to Nature-study and a Guide for Teachers, Students, and Others Interested in Out-of-door Life”
“My daddy served in the army where he lost his right eye, but he flew a flag out in our yard until the day that he died. He wanted my mother, my brother, my sister and me, to grow up and live happy in the land of the free.”
“Folk music has a sort of a bubbling-under quality. The stream runs through the cultural consciousness, and whether or not it's on the radio is not the issue. Folk music is always there.”
“I auditioned on my own. I tried to make a mark for myself without anybody's help, not even Mom's”
“While I am busy with little things, I am not required to do greater things.”
“I have never seen either angels or goddesses, so I am not interested in painting them.”
“Successfully (whatever that may mean) or unsuccessfully, we all overact the part of our favorite character in fiction.”
“The tragedy of marriage is that while all women marry thinking that their man will change, all men marry believing their wife will never change.”

Source : Len Deighton (2010). “London Match”, p.15, HarperCollins UK

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