He was also a movie critic and editor at the New York Herald Tribune. So I think the important thing is to get it down.īLOCK: More than a million-and-a-half copies of "On Writing Well" have been sold.ĬORNISH: Zinsser wrote 19 books. They don't really know until they see it. Don't try to think what editors want, what publishers want, what agents want. I think you should write whatever you're writing, you should write entirely for yourself. WILLIAM ZINSSER: I don't think you should never worry what people think of you. Leave the reader thinking you had fun while writing, that you enjoyed it.īLOCK: Zinsser elaborated on that point on this program in 2006. It became an immediate classic.īLOCK: His rules were simple - keep it short, don't use jargon.ĬORNISH: Read everything you write out loud.īLOCK: We do a lot of that here. It was called "On Writing Well," and it was first published in 1976. Actually, he'd probably urge me to rethink that sentence so let's try this again. A man who so generously gave us a some simple rules to help us write better died yesterday.
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