Introduction, p. viii.
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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.
Источник: On Writing Well (Fifth Edition, orig. pub. 1976), Chapter 21, A Writers Decisions: Organizing a Long Article, p. 254.
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.
Источник: On Writing Well (Fifth Edition, orig. pub. 1976), Chapter 20, Humor, p. 246.
Источник: On Writing Well (Fifth Edition, orig. pub. 1976), Chapter 11, Writing About Places: The Travel Article, p. 80.
Introduction, p. vii.
On Writing Well (Fifth Edition, orig. pub. 1976)
Источник: On Writing Well (Fifth Edition, orig. pub. 1976), Chapter 13, Bits & Pieces, p. 136.
Источник: On Writing Well (Fifth Edition, orig. pub. 1976), Chapter 11, Writing About Places: The Travel Article, p. 91.
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.
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.
Источник: On Writing Well (Fifth Edition, orig. pub. 1976), Chapter 2, Simplicity, p. 12.
“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.
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.
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.
