William Zinsser Quotes
Writing is hard work. A clear sentence is no accident. Very few sentences come out right the first time, or even the third time. Remember this in moments of despair. If you find that writing is hard, it's because it is hard. It's one of the hardest things that people do
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The reason can only be this: heroic poetry depends on an heroic age, and an age is heroic because of what it is, not because of what it does.
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A stronger yuan could lead to greater Chinese asset accumulation in the U.S. and elsewhere.
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Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.
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I think every movie is its own little world, and a director certainly sets the tone.
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I was a boy with one dream and one dream only: I wanted - no, strike that, I was desperate for - a room of my own. You see, in those days I shared a room with my little brother, Jesse, and it wasn't pretty. He was the Oscar to my Felix: messy, careless, and just a little bit sticky - exactly the way a kindergartner is supposed to be.
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Shinsuke Nakamura is probably one of the best wrestlers I've ever been in the ring with. He's very unorthodox. Everything he does is with knockout power. He's a guy who is very flamboyant, so don't let his Michael Jackson antics fool you. This guy is deadly.
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Inconvenience yourself: ditch the remote, the garage door opener, the leaf-blower; buy a bike, broom, rake, and snow shovel.
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There is no kind way to rip the skin off animals' backs. Anyone who wears any fur shares the blame for the torture and gruesome deaths of millions of animals each year.
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A city, far from being a cluster of buildings, is actually a sequence of spaces enclosed and defined by buildings.
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I wanted to be a novelist from a very early age - 11 or 12 - but I don't think I ever thought I would write historical fiction. I never thought I might write academic history because I simply wasn't good enough!
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I read the rumors, and I know there is a cottage industry of meanness out there.
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Any free meal is a good meal, you know?
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My family background has always been very supportive. They're going to be there for me no matter what.
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There are lots of ways to work together.
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I guess there might come a point when I will want to live an anonymous life. I'm only at the start of my career, so I'm sure that moment will come, but I know how blessed I am to have this platform on which to speak and influence.
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God has ways of shaking the world when He is at work. He literally caused the ground to quake when Jesus died on the cross.
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I'm pretty healthy, most of the time.
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If a problem cannot be solved, enlarge it.
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The soul is part of the body. The mind is part of the body. When folks do physical violence to black people, to black bodies in this country, the soul as we construe it is damaged, too - the mind is damaged, too.
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I worked in a pet store and people would ask how big I would get.
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All of my writing is God-given.
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Reality always outstrips fiction. Whatever you make up, something more incredible always pops up in real life.
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Every candle that gets lit in the dark room must feel a little rejection from the darkness around it, but the last thing I want from those who hold a different world view to me is to accept me.
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Writing is hard work. A clear sentence is no accident. Very few sentences come out right the first time, or even the third time. Remember this in moments of despair. If you find that writing is hard, it's because it is hard. It's one of the hardest things that people do
