William Zinsser passes

[pandy]

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/13/arts/william-zinsser-author-of-on-writing-well-dies-at-92.html?hpw&rref=obituaries&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region&region=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well&_r=0

This man's book is a masterpiece.

[_______]

"There's not much to be said about the period except that most writers don't reach it soon enough."

That should be chiseled in granite.

[thaskalos]

"Hard writing makes easy reading. Easy writing makes hard reading." :ThmbUp:

[Shemp Howard]

It is a fitting irony that under Richard Nixon, 'launder' became a dirty word