“Good prose should be transparent, like a window pane.”— George Orwell Related Quotes “Read as widely and as deeply as you can. You have to be a reader before you can be a writer.”— Y.S. Lee “For it would seem – her case proved it – that we write, not with the fingers, but with the whole person. The nerve which controls the pen winds itself about every fibre of our being, threads the heart, pierces the liver.”— Virginia Woolf “I start with a tingle, a kind of feeling of the story I will write. Then come the characters, and they take over, they make the story.”— Karen Blixen