“What is important-what lasts-in another language is not what is said but what is written. For the essence of an age, we look to its poetry and its prose, not its talk shows.” LooksSaidImportantShowsAgeLastsLanguageWrittenEssenceProseTalk Shows Author:Peter Brodie
“I wish my prose to be transparentI don't want the reader to stumble over me; I want him to look through what I'm saying to what I'm describing. I don't want him ever to say, Oh, goodness, how nicely written this is. That would be a failure.” WantWritingLooksWould BeWishWrittenReaderGoodnessProseTransparentDescribingWant Him Author:V. S. Naipaul