Certain Quote by Wilson Follett

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

Good prose is written only face to face with poetry.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

In prose, I think you sometimes have to write in very plain language, where every line may not seem to be so important, though…

— Grace Paley

Fine writing is a distinct disadvantage. So is unique literary style. They take attention from the subject

— Claude C. Hopkins

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

— Laurie Alberts

Prose is not to be read aloud but to oneself alone at night, and it is not quick as poetry but rather a gathering…

— Henry Green

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

My preference is for prose with more silence in it, language that contains more pockets of strangeness.

— Anthony Doerr

Prose writers are interested mostly in life and commas.

— Ursula K. Le Guin

Good writing is deceptive in that it hides its own artifice - it makes it seem easy.

— Michael Arndt

A lot of times you get people writing wonderful sentences and paragraphs, and they fall in love with their prose style, but the stories…

— James Patterson