Works in ChatGPT, Claude, or Any AI
Add semantic quote search to your AI assistant via MCP. One command setup.
And so, at last, I come to the one firm conviction that I mentioned at the beginning: it is that the subject is too new for final judgments. - William Zinsser
" "And so, at last, I come to the one firm conviction that I mentioned at the beginning: it is that the subject is too new for final judgments.
English
Collect this quote
About William Zinsser
William Knowlton Zinsser (born October 7, 1922 – May 12, 2015 ) was an American writer, editor, literary critic, and teacher. He began his career as a journalist for the New York Herald Tribune, where he worked as a feature writer, drama editor, film critic, and editorial writer, and has been a longtime contributor to leading magazines.
Biography information from Wikiquote
Also Known As
Alternative Names:
William Knowlton Zinsser
Related quotes. More quotes will automatically load as you scroll down, or you can use the load more buttons.
Additional quotes by William Zinsser
Unfortunately, an equally strong negative current — fear — is at work. Fear of writing gets planted in most Americans at an early age, usually at school, and it never entirely goes away. The blank piece of paper or the blank computer screen, waiting to be filled with our wonderful words, can freeze us into not writing any words at all, or writing words that are less than wonderful.
As George Orwell pointed out in “Politics and the English Language,” an essay written in 1946 but often cited during the wars in Cambodia, Vietnam and Iraq, “political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible. . . . Thus political language has to consist largely of euphemism, question-begging and sheer cloudy vagueness.
Loading...