June 24th, 2008 | Published in Education, Quotes, Writing
Never hesitate to imitate another writer. Imitation is part of the creative process for anyone learning an art or craft…. Find the best writers in the fields that interest you and read their work aloud.
—William Zinsser, On Writing Well, p. 238.
June 2nd, 2008 | Published in Humor and Satire, Writing
Next time you need to ask for a donation, consider modeling your request on this awful piece of work:
Seeing that nobody donates nothing (logical and normal). Lately I consider that I cannot be eaten the keyboard to live, so I have begun to make a Web of contacts, which she is very generic and that each one finds something that fills in its day to day, friendship, love, a site of char them, cotilleo, marujeo, not, that is not centered in the love like the majority, but that is generic. Of there, I hope to be removing something from money that cheers a little to me and perhaps it causes that I follow with projects of free software. Asi that I leave the page here that is, hoping that if sees in lack something, any thing that could be improved, that suggests it.
MonoCalendar is free software. Your you do not have to pay nothing to use MonoCalendar and you did not find spyware, adware or some other publicity in MonoCalendar. Like in any type of project, to make MonoCalendar it has been long dedicated time, and still more, pays a dominion, a servant, Internet, light and any thing that can arise. For that reason, it is thanked for to all that that can help very with a donation by peque&ntiled;a that is, please, you do a small donation so that projects as this they can exist. Thanks.
Now doesn’t that build confidence and motivate you to donate? I’m sure you can’t wait to help offset the costs of dominion and servitude.
May 8th, 2008 | Published in Humor and Satire, Quotes, Writing
Humor… is urgent work. It’s an attempt to say important things in a special way that regular writers aren’t getting said in a regular way—or if they are, it’s so regular that nobody is reading it.
—William Zinsser, On Writing Well, p. 209.
April 11th, 2008 | Published in Humor and Satire, Quotes, Writing
Humor is the secret weapon of the nonfiction writer. It’s secret because so few writers realize that humor is often their best tool—and sometimes their only tool—for making an important point.
—William Zinsser, On Writing Well, p. 208.
April 4th, 2008 | Published in Business, Education, Quotes, Writing
Plain talk will not be easily achieved in corporate America. Too much vanity is on the line. Managers at every level are prisoners of the notion that a simple style reflects a simple mind. Actually a simple style is the result of hard work and hard thinking: a muddled style reflects a muddled thinker or a person too arrogant, or too dumb, or too lazy to organize his thoughts.
—William Zinsser, On Writing Well, p. 175.
March 29th, 2008 | Published in Business, Quotes, Writing
But just because people work for an institution, they don’t have to write like one.
—William Zinsser, On Writing Well, p. 167.
March 22nd, 2008 | Published in Quotes, Writing
If a phrase comes to you easily, look at it with deep suspicion; it’s probably one of the countless clichés that have woven their way so tightly into the fabric of travel writing that you have to make a special effort not to use them…. Strive for fresh words and images.
—William Zinsser, On Writing Well, p. 118.
March 21st, 2008 | Published in Humor and Satire, Quotes, Writing
The thing about a weekly column, I discovered, is that it comes up weekly. Now this may seem a self-evident fact, but in two years there never came a week when it did not strike me as both profound an startling. Another column? Already? But I just did one.
—Bill Bryson, I’m a Stranger Here Myself (Broadway Books: 1999), p. xii.