Good Prose Quotes
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Good Prose Quotes & Sayings
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A page of good prose remains invincible.
— John Cheever
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
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 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
Good prose is solitary work.
— Christopher Bram
Good ideas ought not to be dressed up in bad prose.
— Barbara Minto
