William Zinsser
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American writer, editor, journalist, literary critic, and professor
Person · Open Library
- Born
- 7 Oct 1922
- Died
- 12 May 2015
- Works
- 34
Top works
- A family of readers
- Extraordinary Lives
- Inventing the Truth
- The Worlds of Childhood (The Writer's Craft)
- Spiritual quests
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1958-02-01
- Active to
- 2020-03-24
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 52
- Total plays
- 322
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- VMD: Visual molecular dynamics
· 1996 · cited 62,934x
- Theory of the firm: Managerial behavior, agency costs and ownership structure
· 1976 · cited 44,823x
- Comparison of simple potential functions for simulating liquid water
· 1983 · cited 39,536x
- QIIME allows analysis of high-throughput community sequencing data
· 2010 · cited 30,945x
- Preparation of Graphitic Oxide
· 1958 · cited 28,681x
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Quotes
- “Writing is thinking on paper, or talking to someone on paper. If you can think clearly, or if you can talk to someone about the things you know and care about, you can write - with confidence and enjoyment.”
- “This is a book by a writer who does some teaching, not a book by a teacher who does some writing, and one of the satisfactions of the craft is that there's always something new to learn.”
- “Good writing has an aliveness that keeps the reader reading from one paragraph to the next, and it's not a question of gimmicks to "personalize" the author.”
- “We are a society strangling in unnecessary words, circular constructions, pompous frills and meaningless jargon.”
- “Writing is hard work. A clear sentence is no accident. Very few sentences come out right the first time, or even the third time. Remember this in moments of despair. If you find that writing is hard, it's because it is hard. It's one of the hardest things that people do.”
- “Writing improves in direct ratio to the number of things we can keep out of it that shouldn't be there.”
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- William
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- New York City
- Place of death
- Manhattan
- Occupation
- university teacher
- Educated at
- Deerfield Academy
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Field of work
- narrative mode
- Official website
- www.williamzinsserwriter.com
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- date of birth
- 1922-10-07
- date of death
- 2015-05-12
- name in native language
- William Zinsser
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