Clear Quote by Tracy Kidder

Good prose should be transparent, like a window pane.

— George Orwell

What I'm constantly striving for in my prose is clarity. So that, ideally, the writing will become so transparent that the reader will forget…

— Jonathan Lethem

Prose is like hair; it shines with combing.

— Gustave Flaubert

I have always tended toward a lush prose style, but I take care to modulate it from story to story and to strip it…

— Jeff VanderMeer

Words, like glasses, obscure everything they do not make clear. Before using a fine word, make a place for it.

— Joseph Joubert

I like having some things very clear while other things are obscured... so that it kind of keeps coming into and out of focus.

— Jonathan Meiburg

I want to be transparent, so I don't leave room for too much thinking.

— Miguel

I wish my prose to be transparent—I don't want the reader to stumble over me; I want him to look through what I'm saying…

— V. S. Naipaul

Good writing is like a windowpane.

— George Orwell

Rich, ornate prose is hard to digest, generally unwholesome, and sometimes nauseating.

— Anonymous

Clear writing is universal. People talk about writing down to an audience or writing up to an audience; I think that's nonsense. If you…

— Malcolm Gladwell

It is also true that one can write nothing readable unless one constantly struggles to efface one's own personality. Good prose is like a…

— George Orwell