Big Quote by Bill Callahan

“All writers are vain, selfish, and lazy, and at the very bottom of their motives there lies a mystery. Writing a book is a…

— George Orwell

And write what you love - don't feel pressured to write serious prose if what you like is to be funny.

— Cassandra Clare

It is also true that one can write nothing readable unless one constantly struggles to efface one's own personality. Good prose is like a…

— George Orwell

A good sentence in prose should be like a good line in poetry, unchangeable, as rhythmic, as sonorous.

— Gustave Flaubert

What's it take to bceome a sublime expounder of prose like yourself?

— Carlie

“Good prose is like a windowpane.”

— George Orwell

Prose is like a window; fiction is like a door. But it is not uncommon that he who should come in through the door…

— Mu Xin

I wish to God,” said Gideon with mild exasperation, “that you’d talk—just once—in prose like other people.

— Dorothy Dunnett

Give your main clause a little space. Prose is not like boxing; the skilled writer deliberately telegraphs his punch, knowing that the reader wants…

— William Safire

Prose is like hair; it shines with combing.

— Gustave Flaubert

“His prose, like the thinking it reveals, is full of cloudy suggestions of something beyond the range of mere cognition. He has been given…

— Richard Mitchell

I don't run away from the idea of philosophy as seductive. I want the sentences to be prose but intense prose, to show that,…

— Stanley Cavell