For me, a page of good prose is where one hears the rain and the noise of battle. It has the power to give grief or universality that lends it a youthful beauty.
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The older I get, the more I seek to use a plain prose style, concentrating more on story.
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 windowpane.
The thing about good writing is it has a music to it.
I think there's something quite interesting about the almost tragic quality of a lot of overwrought prose, because it has a much more self-conscious awareness of its own failure to touch the real.
'At the Gates of the Animal Kingdom' by Amy Hempel showed me the lean quality of prose.
If you like the precision and concision of poetry, a page of prose is unsatisfying in a certain way. And poetry is so direct.
If there's anything I'm keen to get better at in my writing, then it's the writing of prose as opposed to the writing of dialogue.
A great speech is literature.
I have always tended toward a lush prose style, but I take care to modulate it from story to story and to strip it down entirely when necessary.
Good writing is supposed to evoke sensation in the reader - not the fact that it is raining, but the feeling of being rained upon.
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