Beauty Quote by Jamie Holoran

“I think you can talk forever about style, technique and beautiful prose, but surely in the final analysis one thing matters above all else…

— Jamie Holoran

“Every page of a great novel should be crafted like a beautiful melody, to linger on long after the music stops playing.”

— Johnny Flora

“There's truly an art regarding literature in every way...”

— VandBrooks

“A writer's style should be direct and personal, his imagery rich and earthy, and his words simple and vigorous. The greatest writers have the…

— Ernest Hemingway

“... the structure of a page of good prose is, analyzed logically, not something frozen but the vibrating of a bridge, which changes with…

— Robert Musil

“Furthermore, the initial page, always crucial, passed every test, with its promises and divisions, its portentous opening paragraph like the great door of a…

— William H. Gass

“The writer's voice, the honesty and candor that is present in that voice, is what must be written upon the page.”

— Edmond Rostand

“It is always good – is it not? – when all that hard work of writing pages is turned into a solid book which…

— Ann Swinfen

“Ever read this?" "Let's cut corners. To hell with literature. You're clever and I'm beautiful. Now let's talk about who we really are.”

— John Fowles The Magus

“The whole Epistle is so methodical, that even its very beginning is   framed according to the rules of art.”

— John Calvin