“Take care of the sounds, and the sense will take care of itself.”
– Lewis Carroll

“For me, a page of good prose is where one hears the rain.”
– John Cheever

“Always write (and read) with the ear, not the eye.”
– C. S. Lewis

“No one knows what ‘voice’ is; only when it is absent: when one hears nothing.” – Joyce Carol Oates

“Style results more from what a person is than from what he knows.”
– E. B. White

From Shoptalk: Learning to Write With Writers