I felt naked beneath the wildness of her eyes. I felt alive. Unknown. And I knew then that the world contained so many things I would never understand.
A prose that is altogether alive demands something of the reader that the ordinary novel reader is not prepared to give.
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T.S. Eliot
Prose divides shame into stations.
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Wayne Koestenbaum
But what humans forget, cells remember. The body, that elephant
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Jeffrey Eugenides
Don't use a five-dollar word when a fifty-cent word will do.
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Mark Twain
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.
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Walter Benjamin
