“A good sentence in prose should be like a good line in poetry, unchangeable, as rhythmic, as sonorous.”
Gustave Flaubert
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“Good prose should be transparent, like a window pane.”
George Orwell
“Everything in art depends on execution: the story of a louse can be as beautiful as the story of Alexander. You must write according to your feelings, be sure those feelings are true, and let everything else go hang. When a line is good it ceases to belong to any school. A line of prose must be as immutable as a line of poetry.”
Julian Barnes
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