Communication Quote by W. Somerset Maugham

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

Good writing is good conversation, only more so.

— Ernest Hemingway

There are lots of guys out there who write a better prose line than I do and who have a better understanding of what…

— Stephen King

I've found that good dialogue tells you not only what people are saying or how they're communicating but it tells you a great deal…

— E. O. Wilson

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

As with all other aspects of fiction, the key to writing good dialogue is honesty.

— Stephen King

“[The] defining characteristics of good prose [are]: a preference for short sentences diversified by an occasionally very long one; a tone that is relaxed…

— F.W. Bateson

“Good writers are avid readers. They have absorbed a vast inventory of words, idioms, constructions, tropes, and rhetorical tricks,”

— Steven Pinker

I would say that the writers I like and trust have at the base of their prose something called the English sentence. An awful…

— Martin Amis

It is a hard and nice subject for a man to speak of himself: it grates his own heart to say anything of disparagement,…

— Abraham Cowley

Prose is not necessarily good because it obeys the rules of syntax, but it is fairly certain to be bad if it ignores them.

— Wilson Follett

The quality of what is said inevitably influences the way in which it is said, however inexperienced the writer.

— Robertson Davies