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A page of good prose remains invincible. — John Cheever

The fact is that certain themes cannot be celebrated in words, and tyranny is one of them. No one ever wrote a good book in praise of the Inquisition. — George Orwell

The process of composition, messing around with paragraphs and trying to make really good prose, is hardwired into my personality. — Rick Moody

All I want is a modest place in Mr X's Good Reading, Miss Y's Good Writing, and that new edition of One Thousand Best Bits of Recent Prose. — James Agate

What I do say is that I can write verse, and that the writing of verse in strict form is the best possible training for writing good prose. — Philip Pullman

Writers acquire their technique by spotting, savoring, and reverse-engineering examples of good prose. — Steven Pinker

Beautiful coquettes are quacks of love. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Risk is a function of how poorly a strategy will perform if the 'wrong' scenario occurs. — Michael Porter

Dave was a confirmed serotonin junkie. Any day of the year, he chose a good book, a hot cupper, and air-conditioning over jeopardy to life and limb. — Dan Sofer

Liberals measure compassion by counting the number of people receiving government help. — Rush Limbaugh

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

Savoring good prose is not just a more effective way to develop a writerly ear than obeying a set of commandments; it's a more inviting one. — Steven Pinker

Work on good prose has three steps: a musical stage when it is composed, an architectonic one when it is built, and a textile one when it is woven. — Walter Benjamin

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

One's personal life and work are inseparable. — Michael Hyatt

An essential element for good writing is a good ear: One must listen to the sound of one's own prose. — Barbara Tuchman

If you have a good story idea, don't assume it must form a prose narrative. It may work better as a play, a screenplay or a poem. Be flexible. — Hilary Mantel

Good prose is like a windowpane. — George Orwell

The aim of good prose words is to mean what they say. The aim of good poetical words is to mean what they do not say. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

Good Heavens! For more than forty years I have been speaking prose without knowing it. — Moliere

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

Good prose should be transparent, like a window pane. — George Orwell

Warfare is the father of all good things, it is also the father of good prose! — Friedrich Nietzsche

It's in a neighbor's house fiction begins. — Dermot Healy

Good writing should be grasped at once - in a second. — Francine Prose

Good prose is written only face to face with poetry. — Friedrich Nietzsche

In painting as in prose, a good eye is not enough to tell you whether what you see is real or fake. — David Bellos

The gap between verse and poetry is enormous. Between good poetry and good prose the gap is much narrower — Michael Longley

It has been said that good prose should resemble the conversation of a well-bred man. — W. Somerset Maugham

Does the business have favourable long term prospects? — Warren Buffett

And what holds good of verse holds infinitely better in respect to prose. — James Payn

Good prose is solitary work. — Christopher Bram

One path alone leads to a life of peace. The path of virtue. — Juvenal

Good ideas ought not to be dressed up in bad prose. — Barbara Minto

Good authors, too, who once knew better words now only use four-letter words writing prose ... anything goes. — Cole Porter

All the elements of good writing depend on the writer's skill in choosing one word instead of another. — Francine Prose