Musical Quote by Walter Benjamin

Work on a good piece of writing proceeds on three levels: a musical one, where it is composed; an architectural one, where it is…

— Walter Benjamin

Good prose almost always requires both showing and telling, scenes and summary, the two basic components of creative prose.

— Laurie Alberts

With prose you can incorporate more details, develop scenes, sustain the tension in a special way. Prose has its own speed.

— Robert Morgan

Prose is all about embellishing and describing.

— Mike Birbiglia

Prose is like hair; it shines with combing.

— Gustave Flaubert

To write rhythmic prose one must go deep into oneself and find the anonymous and multiple rhythm of the blood. Prose needs to be…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

The flesh of prose gets its shape and strength from the bones of grammar.

— Constance Hale

A good sentence in prose should be like a good line in poetry, unchangeable, as rhythmic, as sonorous.

— Gustave Flaubert

I think of writing as a sculptural medium. You are not building things. You are removing things, chipping away at language to reveal a…

— Will Self

Prose is something that is persistent in staying in one place long enough to not only zero in on the dramatic effect of something…

— Tracy K. Smith

Writing is revision. All prose responds to work.

— Tracy Kidder

Printed prose is historically a most peculiar, almost an aberrant way of telling stories, and by far the most inherently anesthetic: It is the…

— John Barth