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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… — Walter Benjamin
- For me, a page of good prose is where one hears the rain and the noise of battle. It has the power… — John Cheever
- The aim of good prose words is to mean what they say. The aim of good poetical words is to mean what… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
- Warfare is the father of all good things, it is also the father of good prose! — Friedrich Nietzsche
- What I do say is that I can write verse, and that the writing of verse in strict form is the best… — Philip Pullman
- The process of composition, messing around with paragraphs and trying to make really good prose, is hardwired into my personality. — Rick Moody
- Good prose almost always requires both showing and telling, scenes and summary, the two basic components of creative prose. — Laurie Alberts
- Inexperienced fiction and creative nonfiction writers are often told to show, not tell - to write scenes, dramatize, cut exposition, cut summary… — Laurie Alberts
- A page of good prose remains invincible. — John Cheever
- Good prose is written only face to face with poetry. — Friedrich Nietzsche
- Writers acquire their technique by spotting, savoring, and reverse-engineering examples of good prose. — Steven Pinker
- The gap between verse and poetry is enormous. Between good poetry and good prose the gap is much narrower — Michael Longley