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- Words in prose ought to express the intended meaning; if they attract attention to themselves, it is a fault; in the very best styles you… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- Whatever is felt upon the page without being specifically named there--that, we may say, is created. — Willa Cather
- It's difficult for me to feel that a solid page without the breakups of paragraphs can be interesting. I break mine up perhaps sooner than… — A. E. van Vogt
- I do like a song that can look good on a page without even being sung. I edit and edit and edit. — Jakob Dylan
- I'm not asking a poem to carry a lot of rocks in its pockets. Just being an ordinary observer and liver and feeler and letting… — Sharon Olds
- While reading writers of great formulatory power — Henry James, Santayana, Proust — I find I can scarcely get through a page without having to… — Joseph Epstein
- Don't talk about it - you'll talk it away. Let the ideas flow from your mind to the page without exposing them to air. Especially… — Tom Robbins
- Here's what I want from a book, what I demand, what I pray for when I take up a novel and begin to read the… — Pat Conroy