Poynter's Roy Peter Clark has a big case of author envy when it comes to William Zinsser, whose classic outsells Clark's own. But he credits the old man with holding himself to his own high standards, and cites pages 10 and 11 of "On Writing Well" as evidence: "I’ve studied them until my eyes bleed ... There have never — I say never! — been two pages in a writing text as practical, persuasive and revealing as pages 10 and 11."
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