William Zinsser Men Quotations

The best way to learn to write is to study the work of the men and women who are doing the kind of writing you want to do.

Telling a writer to relax is like telling a man to relax while being prodded for a possible hernia.

Writing is learned by imitation. If anyone asked me how I learned to write, I'd say I learned by reading the men and women who were doing the kind of writing I wanted to do and trying to figure out how they did it.