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1. "Writers and learners will write better and learn more if they understand the "why" of what they are studying." ~ William Zinsser

2. "Not everybody has a talent for painting, or for the piano, or for dance. But we can write our way into the artist's head and into his problems and solutions. Or we can go there with another writer." ~ William Zinsser

3. "I never think of him as a scholar assaulting me with how much he knows, but as a teacher eager to share a lifelong passion for the subject." ~ William Zinsser

4. "Even a poor translator couldn't kill a style that moves with such narrative clarity." ~ William Zinsser

5. "No one has something original or important to say will willing we run the risk of being misunderstood; people who write obscurely are either unskilled in writing or up to mischief" ~ William Zinsser

6. "One of underestimated tasks in nonfiction writing is to impose narrative shape on an unwieldy mass of material." ~ William Zinsser

7. "Writers who think THEY are being criticized when only that writing is being criticized are beyond a teacher's reach. Writing can only be learned when a writer coldly separates himself from what he has written and looks at it with the objectivity of a plumber examining a newly piped bathroom to see if he got all the joints tight." ~ William Zinsser

8. "Editors are licensed to be curious." ~ William Zinsser

9. "Was the whole matter of aptitudes a myth – a copout used by people like me to avoid subjects that would force us to think inTherefore threatening ways?" ~ William Zinsser

10. "My work has been the education I avoided." ~ William Zinsser

11. "Probably every subject is interesting if an avenue into it can be found that has humanity and that an ordinary person can follow." ~ William Zinsser

12. "Writing can be taught or learned in the vacuum. We must say to students in every area of knowledge: "This is a how other people have written about this subject. Read it; study it; think about it. You can do it too." ~ William Zinsser

13. "Motivation clears the head faster than a nasal spray." ~ William Zinsser

14. "Readers must be given room to bring their own emotions to a piece so crammed with emotional content; the writer must tenaciously resist explaining why the material is so moving." ~ William Zinsser

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Women of the Gallagher Academy, who comes here?" she asked. Just then, every girl at every table (even the newbies) stood and said in unison, "We are the sisters of Gillian." "Why do you come?" my mother asked. "To learn her skills. Honor her sword. And keep her secrets." "To what end do you work?" "To the cause of justice and light." "How long will you strive?" "For all the days of our lives," we finished and I felt a little like a character in one of my grandma's soap operas."
Author: Ally Carter