Prose Style Quotes

“I am not able, and I do not want, completely to abandon the world-view that I acquired in childhood. So long as I remain
alive and well I shall continue to feel strongly about prose style, to love the surface of the earth, and to take pleasure in solid objects and scraps of useless information. It is no use trying to suppress that side of myself.”
― George Orwell, Orwell on Truth

“fiction must be different from reportage; painting from photography. And this difference should be reflected in the language of the work”
― Paul West

“But deadpan cool has long since thinned into a manner. Its reflexive irony is now more or less the house style of late capitalism.”
― Garth Risk Hallberg