This involves more than I can discuss here, but do it. Read the writers of great prose dialogue-people like Robert Stone and Joan Didion. Compression, saying as little as possible, making everything carry much more than is actually said. Conflict.… — Janet Fitch Copy Share Image
For me a page of good prose is where one hears the rain. A page of good prose is when one hears the noise of battle… A page of good prose seems to me the most serious dialogue that well-informed… — John Cheever Copy Share Image
