"Ultimately the product that any writer has to sell is not the subject being written about, but who he or she is."

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Source : William Zinsser (2012). “On Writing Well, 30th Anniversary Edition: An Informal Guide to Writing Nonfiction”, p.5, Harper Collins

William Zinsser

#Subjects Quotes

“And took for truth the test of ridicule.”
“All that is obvious detracts completely from all that is not.”
“One has the responsibility to oneself, to the writer, director and the people who put up the money, to put out the best of what one has experienced and understood about the human condition as it relates to the role one has been hired to portray.”
“Variety of mere nothings gives more pleasure than uniformity of something.”
“What you are today is the choice you made yesterday.”

Source : FaceBook post by H.E. Tsem Tulku Rinpoche from Feb 26, 2013
“Together we can face any challenges as deep as the ocean and as high as the sky.”
“A lot of people are writing poems and don't realize it. They have this limited idea of how the poem should sound or what subjects it should address.”
“I like to talk to the crowd on stage. I don't like going to a concert and feeling like the people on stage don't care whether or not I'm there.”

Source : Source: www.thereelspin.com

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