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Writing Well Quotes

Ultimately the product that any writer has to sell is not the subject being written about, but who he or she is.

Ultimately the product that any writer has to sell is not the subject being written about, but who he or she is.

William Zinsser
Writing Well, Subjects, Products
William Zinsser (2012). “On Writing Well, 30th Anniversary Edition: An Informal Guide to Writing Nonfiction”, p.5, Harper Collins

All writing is ultimately a question of solving a problem.

William Zinsser
Writing, Problem, Writing Well
"On Writing Well". Book by William Zinsser (Chapter 8: Unity, p. 49), 1976.

By writing quickly we are not brought to write well, but by writing well we are brought to write quickly.

Quintilian
Writing, Writing Well, Wells
Quintilian (1856). “Quintilian's Institutes of Oratory, Or, Education of an Orator: In Twelve Books”, p.286