Quote Notes

I don’t know what still newer marvels will make writing twice as easy in the next 30 years. But I do know they won’t make writing twice as good. That will still require plain old hard thinking.

— William Zinsser, On Writing Well

William wrote this in 2006. Nearly 20 years later, LLMs have made producing text easier than ever — yet concerns about AI-generated junk are growing too. Good writing remains rare and precious. It still needs to be written and rewritten, again and again, by humans.