Good Prose Quotes
19 quotes by 12 authors
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Work on good prose has three steps: a musical stage when it is composed, an architectonic one when it is built, and a textile one…
— Walter Benjamin
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For me, a page of good prose is where one hears the rain and the noise of battle. It has the power to give grief…
— John Cheever
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The aim of good prose words is to mean what they say. The aim of good poetical words is to mean what they do not…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Warfare is the father of all good things, it is also the father of good prose!
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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What I do say is that I can write verse, and that the writing of verse in strict form is the best possible training for…
— Philip Pullman
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The process of composition, messing around with paragraphs and trying to make really good prose, is hardwired into my personality.
— Rick Moody
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Good prose almost always requires both showing and telling, scenes and summary, the two basic components of creative prose.
— Laurie Alberts
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Inexperienced fiction and creative nonfiction writers are often told to show, not tell - to write scenes, dramatize, cut exposition, cut summary - but it…
— Laurie Alberts
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A page of good prose remains invincible.
— John Cheever
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Good prose is written only face to face with poetry.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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Writers acquire their technique by spotting, savoring, and reverse-engineering examples of good prose.
— Steven Pinker
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The gap between verse and poetry is enormous. Between good poetry and good prose the gap is much narrower
— Michael Longley
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It has been said that good prose should resemble the conversation of a well-bred man.
— W. Somerset Maugham
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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 windowpane.
— George Orwell
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Good prose should be transparent, like a window pane.
— George Orwell
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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…
— John Cheever
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Good prose is the selection of the best words; poetry is the best words in the best order; and journalese is any old words in…
— Alan Brewer
Who Wrote These Good Prose Quotes
12 authors contributed a total of 19 Good Prose Quotes as follows: