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Уильям Ноултон Зинсер американский писатель, редактор, литературный критик и учитель. Он начал свою карьеру в качестве журналиста в New York Herald Tribune, где он работал в качестве сценариста, драматического редактора, кинокритика и редактора. Wikipedia  

✵ 7. Октябрь 1922 – 12. Май 2015
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“Make a habit of reading what is being written today and what has been written before. Writing is learned by imitation.”

Источник: On Writing Well (Fifth Edition, orig. pub. 1976), Chapter 6, Words, p. 36.

“Nobody ever stopped reading E. B. White or V. S. Pritchett because the writing was too good.”

Источник: On Writing Well (Fifth Edition, orig. pub. 1976), Chapter 13, Bits & Pieces, p. 130.

“The writers job is like solving a puzzle, and finally arriving at a solution is a tremendous satisfaction.”

Источник: On Writing Well (Fifth Edition, orig. pub. 1976), Chapter 21, A Writers Decisions: Organizing a Long Article, p. 254.

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

Источник: On Writing Well (Fifth Edition, orig. pub. 1976), Chapter 3, Clutter, p. 13

“Memoir is the art of inventing the truth.”

Источник: On Writing Well (Fifth Edition, orig. pub. 1976), Chapter 12, Writing About Yourself: The Memoir, p. 99.

“The writer who cares about usage must always know the quick from the dead.”

Источник: On Writing Well (Fifth Edition, orig. pub. 1976), Chapter 7, Usage, p. 45.

“All writing is ultimately a question of solving a problem.”

Источник: On Writing Well (Fifth Edition, orig. pub. 1976), Chapter 8, Unity, p. 49.

“I've never heard anybody smile.”

Источник: On Writing Well (Fifth Edition, orig. pub. 1976), Chapter 10, Writing About People: The Interview, p. 74.

“Pure nonsense is a joy forever, as Keats didn't quite say. I love to see a writer flying high, just for the hell of it.”

Источник: On Writing Well (Fifth Edition, orig. pub. 1976), Chapter 20, Humor, p. 246.

“People and places are the twin pillars on which most nonfiction is built. Every human event happens somewhere, and the reader wants to know what that somewhere was like.”

Источник: On Writing Well (Fifth Edition, orig. pub. 1976), Chapter 11, Writing About Places: The Travel Article, p. 80.

“Probably the finest travel book ever written by an American is Walden, though Thoreau only went a mile out of town.”

Источник: On Writing Well (Fifth Edition, orig. pub. 1976), Chapter 11, Writing About Places: The Travel Article, p. 91.

“My roster of the new literature, in short, would include all the writers who come bearing new information and who present it with vigor, clarity and humanity.”

Источник: On Writing Well (Fifth Edition, orig. pub. 1976), Chapter 9, Nonfiction as Literature, p. 61.

“A writer will do anything to avoid the act of writing.”

Источник: On Writing Well (Fifth Edition, orig. pub. 1976), Chapter 4, Style, p. 21.

“Journalism is writing that first appears in any periodic journal.”

Источник: On Writing Well (Fifth Edition, orig. pub. 1976), Chapter 9, Nonfiction as Literature, p. 61.

“We are a society strangling in unnecessary words, circular constructions, pompous frills and meaningless jargon.”

Источник: On Writing Well (Fifth Edition, orig. pub. 1976), Chapter 2, Simplicity, p. 7.

“Be a writer. Write things down.”

Источник: On Writing Well (Fifth Edition, orig. pub. 1976), Chapter 10, Writing About People: The Interview, p. 70.

“Good writing is lean and confident.”

Источник: On Writing Well (Fifth Edition, orig. pub. 1976), Chapter 13, Bits & Pieces, p. 114.

“If you write for yourself, you'll reach all the people you want to write for.”

Источник: On Writing Well (Fifth Edition, orig. pub. 1976), Chapter 12, Writing About Yourself: The Memoir, p. 98.

“You are writing for yourself.”

Источник: On Writing Well (Fifth Edition, orig. pub. 1976), Chapter 5, The Audience, p. 26.

“You must find some way to elevate your act of writing into entertainment.”

Источник: On Writing Well (Fifth Edition, orig. pub. 1976), Chapter 22, Write as Well as You Can, p. 276.

“The best way to learn to write is to study the work of the men and women who are doing the kind of writing you want to do.”

Источник: On Writing Well (Fifth Edition, orig. pub. 1976), Chapter 13, Bits & Pieces, p. 136.

“Nobody becomes Tom Wolfe overnight, not even Tom Wolfe.”

Источник: On Writing Well (Fifth Edition, orig. pub. 1976), Chapter 4, Style, p. 20.

“Good writing has an aliveness that keeps the reader reading from one paragraph to the next, and it's not a question of gimmicks to "personalize" the author.”

Источник: On Writing Well (Fifth Edition, orig. pub. 1976), Chapter 1, The Transaction, p. 6.

“Good writers are visible just behind their words.”

Источник: On Writing Well (Fifth Edition, orig. pub. 1976), Chapter 4, Style, p. 23.

“It's a fitting irony that under Richard Nixon "launder" became a dirty word.”

Источник: On Writing Well (Fifth Edition, orig. pub. 1976), Chapter 7, Usage, p. 47.

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

Источник: On Writing Well (Fifth Edition, orig. pub. 1976), Chapter 5, The Audience, p. 26.

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