Clutter is the disease of American writing. We are a society stranglin…

William Zinsser
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Clutter is the disease of American writing. We are a society strangling in unnecessary words, circular constructions, pompous frills, and meaningless jargon. ✨ William Zinsser (2012). On Writing Well, 30th Anniversary Edition: An Informal Guide to Writing Nonfiction, p.6, Harper Collins
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Scholarship hath no fury like that of a language purist faced with sludge. ✨ William Knowlton Zinsser (1980). On Writing Well: An Informal Guide to Writing Nonfiction, HarperCollins Publishers
You learn to write by writing.
I almost always urge people to write in the first person. ... Writing is an act of ego and you might as well admit it.
Finding a voice that your readers will enjoy is largely a matter of taste. Saying that isn't much help-taste is a quality so intangible that it can't even be defined. But we know it when we meet it.
Good writers are visible just behind their words. ✨ William Zinsser (2012). On Writing Well, 30th Anniversary Edition: An Informal Guide to Writing Nonfiction, p.21, Harper Collins

Clutter is the disease of American writing. We are a society strangling in unnecessary words, circular constructions, pompous frills, and meaningless jargon. ✨ William Zinsser (2012). On Writing Well, 30th Anniversary Edition: An Informal Guide to Writing Nonfiction, p.6, Harper Collins

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