Good Prose: The Art of Nonfiction
When I can use prose as I do in writing stories as a direct means or form of thinking, not as a way of saying something I know or believe, not as a vehicle for a message, but as an exploration, a voyage of discovery resulting in something I didn’t know before I wrote it, then I feel that I am using it properly.
Ursula K. Le Guin • Words Are My Matter: Writings on Life and Books
key to success in nonfiction was that the work should be either “very entertaining” or “extremely practical.”
Ryan Holiday • Perennial Seller: The Art of Making and Marketing Work that Lasts
Edwin Schlossberg: “The skill of writing is to create a context in which other people can think.”1 This book is a map.
Tim O'Reilly • Wtf?
"Prose-forward,” though, goes a long way toward explaining what books are counted as literary in the real world. Not just as a term that explains what unites the surrealism of Donald Barthelme, the Kmart realism of Ann Beattie, the lush prose of Toni Morrison, and [insert infinite other examples here]. But also what genre authors are counted among ... See more
Lincoln Michel • On "Prose-Forward" Writing and the Pleasures of Different Genre Conversations
