Not being a writer, my father never worried about finding his "style." He just wrote the way he talked, and now, when I read his sentences, I hear his personality and his humor, his idioms and his usages, many of them an echo of his college years in the early 1900s. I also hear his honesty.


On Writing Well (2006)

William Zinsser Quotes

Not being a writer, my father never worried about finding his style. He just wrote the way he talked, and now, when I read his sentences, I hear his...

Not being a writer, my father never worried about finding his style. He just wrote the way he talked, and now, when I read his sentences, I hear his...

Not being a writer, my father never worried about finding his style. He just wrote the way he talked, and now, when I read his sentences, I hear his...

Not being a writer, my father never worried about finding his style. He just wrote the way he talked, and now, when I read his sentences, I hear his...