William Zinsser Quote

People and places are the twin pillars on which most nonfiction is built. Every human event happens somewhere, and the reader wants to know what that somewhere was like.


Chapter 11, Writing About Places: The Travel Article, p. 80. - On Writing Well (Fifth Edition, orig. pub. 1976)


People and places are the twin pillars on which most nonfiction is built. Every human event happens somewhere, and the reader wants to know what that ...

People and places are the twin pillars on which most nonfiction is built. Every human event happens somewhere, and the reader wants to know what that ...

People and places are the twin pillars on which most nonfiction is built. Every human event happens somewhere, and the reader wants to know what that ...

People and places are the twin pillars on which most nonfiction is built. Every human event happens somewhere, and the reader wants to know what that ...