Bridges Quote by Robert Musil

A page of good prose remains invincible.

— John Cheever

The more prose I wrote, the more the pendulum swung back toward the middle, merging some poetic sensibilities with the more fundamental elements of…

— Alex Lemon

“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

“You can talk forever about style, technique and beautiful prose...in the final analysis one thing matters above all else - is it a page-turner?”

— Jamie Holoran

“When a writer puts words on paper, it is an intimate act. The reader hears your words in his voice and he becomes the…

— N.M. Kelby

“Authors are merely the medium between the words and the page.”

— Caron Kamps Widden

“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

“If writing is thinking and discovery and selection and order and meaning, it is also awe and reverence and mystery and magic....Authors arrive at…

— Toni Morrison

“The Reader flexes a hand that is stiff and still stained with blood. The Reader holds all the power. It is the Reader who…

— Loreth Anne White

“When the mind is braced by labor and invention, the page of whatever book we read becomes luminous with manifold allusion. Every sentence is…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

“Prose fills a space, like a liquid poured in from the top, but poetry occupies it, arrays itself in formation, sets up camp and…

— Simon Armitage