“This is a book by a writer who does some teaching, not a book by a teacher who does some writing, and one of the satisfactions of the craft is that there's always something new to learn.”

— William Zinsser

Introduction, p. viii.
On Writing Well (Fifth Edition, orig. pub. 1976)

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writer, editor, journalist, literary critic, professor 1922–2015

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