Invincible Quote by John Cheever

For me, a page of good prose is where one hears the rain and the noise of battle. It has the power to give…

— John Cheever

For me a page of good prose is where one hears the rain. A page of good prose is when one hears the noise…

— John Cheever

Every page must explode, whether through seriousness, profundity, turbulence, nausea, the new, the eternal, annihilating nonsense, enthusiasm for principles, or the way it is…

— Francis Picabia

Literature is doomed if liberty of thought perishes.

— George Orwell

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

— Ann Swinfen

“... 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

“The Page awaits the Inspiration even as Inspiration roams the world of man, seeking a Page upon which to unfurl itself, body and soul,…

— Chila Woychik

Good writing is like a bomb: it explodes in the face of the reader.

— Nuruddin Farah

“One intriguing way to enter into the battle between good and evil, life and death, sanity and madness, is in the pages of fiction.”

— Robert Poe

“As a writer, I can think of no greater terror than confronting a blank page, except perhaps the terror of being shot at.”

— Richard Castle

“There is a literature that does not reach the voracious mass. It is the work of creators, issued from a real necessity in the…

— Tristan Tzara

A prose that is altogether alive demands something of the reader that the ordinary novel reader is not prepared to give.

— T. S. Eliot