Bullets Quote by Lynn Abbey

I write, fighting for every sentence, fighting to hold the reader with every paragraph.

— Hector Tobar

Everything I write, I read aloud. It has to sound a certain way and look a certain way on page.

— Jacqueline Woodson

I suppress in my prose any language which calls attention to itself.

— Jerzy Kosinski

Habit is the best thing for you if you’re trying to write prose.

— Alan Cheuse

“Each time you sit down to write, you should cleanse your linguistic palate by reading some things that are vastly unlike what you’ve been…

— Michael Erard

Reading is like breathing in, writing is like breathing out.

— Pam Allyn

I think in reading a few sentences of text you can just tell the tone, and that's something I love in prose writers.

— Lauren Mayberry

I revise constantly, as I go along and then again after I've finished a first draft. Few of my novels contain a single sentence…

— Michael Cunningham

If there's anything I'm keen to get better at in my writing, then it's the writing of prose as opposed to the writing of…

— David Nicholls

I try to write conversationally; I try to write like people speak and put the emphasis on the right syllable.

— Don Henley

I write the paragraph, then I'm crossing out, changing words, trying to improve it. When it seems more or less OK, then I type…

— Paul Auster

I write every paragraph four times - once to get my meaning down, once to put in anything I have left out, once to…

— Margery Allingham