Writing about Writing about Writing …
“Surprisingly often they use the phrase “You changed my life.” I don’t take that to mean that they found Buddhist enlightenment or quit smoking. What they mainly mean is that I cleaned out the sludge in their thinking that had paralyzed them from doing writing of any kind—a phobia not unlike the fear of cleaning out the closets or the basement.” —William Zinsser
This quote is from Zinsser’s essay from the Spring 2009 issue of The American Scholar about writing and rewriting his book On Writing Well.
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