writers sweep us along strongly current energy–Normal mailer, Tom Wol — William Zinsser, Writing Well: Classic Guide Writing Nonfiction

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There are some writers who sweep us along so strongly in their current of energy–Normal mailer, Tom Wolfe, Toni Morrison, William F. Buckley, Jr., Hunter Thompson, David Foster Wallace, Dave Eggers–that we assume that when they go to work the words just flow. Nobody thinks of the effort they made every morning to turn on the switch. You also have to turn on the switch. Nobody is going to do it for you.

William Zinsser, On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction

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