Writes Quotes

“Beware, then, of the long word that's no better than the short word: "assistance" (help), "numerous" (many), "facilitate" (ease), "Individual" (man or woman), "remainder" (rest), "initial" (first), "implement" (do), "sufficient" (enough), "attempt" (try), "referred to as" (called), and hundreds more. Beware of all the slippery new fad words: paradigm and parameter, prioritize and potentialize. They are all weeds that will smother what you write. Don't dialogue with someone you can talk to. Don't interface with anybody.”
― William Zinsser, On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction

“I write these words to touch you,
My love,
In places my hands can only dream of.”
― Jenim Dibie, The Calligraphy of God: A Collection of Love Poems

“Don't annoy your readers by over-explaining--by telling them something they already know or can figure out. Try not to use words like "surprisingly," "predictably" and "of course," which put a value on a fact before the reader encounters the fact. Trust your material.”
― William Zinsser, On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction

“It wont do to say that the reader is too dumb or too lazy to keep pace with the train of thought. If the reader is lost, it's usually because the writer hasn't be careful enough.”
― William Zinsser, On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction

“...being "rather unique" is no more possible than being rather pregnant.”
― William Zinsser, On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction

“There are some writers who sweep us along so strongly in their current of energy--Normal mailer, Tom Wolfe, Toni Morrison, William F. Buckley, Jr., Hunter Thompson, David Foster Wallace, Dave Eggers--that we assume that when they go to work the words just flow. Nobody thinks of the effort they made every morning to turn on the switch. You also have to turn on the switch. Nobody is going to do it for you.”
― William Zinsser, On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction

“Let us make sure that future generation writes our biography.”
― Amit Kalantri

“There are few experiences as depressing as that anxious barren state known as writer's block, where you sit staring at your blank page like a cadaver, feeling your mind congeal, feeling you talent run down your leg and into your sock.”
― Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird

“Vulnerability has a strength of its own.”
― William Zinsser

“Action is the ink that writes what you think on the pages of life!”
― Constance Chuks Friday

“It wont do to say that the reader is too dumb or too lazy to keep pace with the train of thought. If the reader is lost, it's usually because the writer hasn't been careful enough”
― William Zinsser, On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction

“But apart from these lazinesses of logic, what makes the story so tired is the failure of the writer to reach for anything but the nearest cliche'. "Shouldered his way," "only to be met," "crashing into his face," "waging a lonely war," "corruption that is rife," "sending shock waves," "New York's finest," - these dreary phrases constitute writing at its most banal. We know just what to expect. No surprise awaits us in the form of an unusual word, an oblique look. We are in the hands of a hack, and we know it right away, We stop reading.”
― William Zinsser, On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction

“I'm often dismayed by the sludge I see appearing on my screen if I approach writing as a task--the day's work--and not with some enjoyment.”
― William Zinsser, On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction

“Love writes without words.”
― A.D. Posey

“As an author who writes motivated with elevated consciousness in humanitarian interests, I believe life application and guidance given should always start and finish with self.”
― Tracey Bond

“My pen writes feelings that I am unable to express while speaking.”
― Avijeet Das