I'm a games and theory kind of guy. I love puzzles, so it was fun dissecting Shakespeare's prose. — Neil Patrick Harris Copy Share Image
“Just because everybody uses language, that doesn't mean that they can write even tolerable prose.” — Stephen Jones Copy Share Image
Poetry is prose bewitched, a music made of visual thoughts, the sound of an idea. — Mina Loy Copy Share Image
“I can't allow what we learned in English composition to disrupt the sound and rhythm of the narrative.” — Elmore Leonard Copy Share Image
Originally, poetry creates the myth, while the prose-writer draws its portrait. — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
In prose, if you forget a line, you can say something else in the same context. — Puneet Issar Copy Share Image
Narrative prose is a legal wife, while drama is a posturing, boisterous, cheeky and wearisome mistress. — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
“This town of churches and dreams; this town I thought I would lose myself in, with its backward ways and winding roads… — Kellie Elmore Copy Share Image
On a piece of prose, you have to work at least six hours a day. I don't know how you can do… — Mary Karr Copy Share Image
Prose is not necessarily good because it obeys the rules of syntax, but it is fairly certain to be bad if it… — Wilson Follett Copy Share Image
Juliet!' I whip around but not quickly enough. She's swallowed by the crowd, the gap that allowed her to break for the… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
My publisher had mailed [Bret Easton Ellis] Richard Yates. And when I talked to him he said he had read all my… — Tao Lin Copy Share Image
The newspaper is, in fact, very bad for one's prose style. That's why I gravitated towards feature stories where you get a… — Tom Wolfe Copy Share Image
The prose poem Walk The Red Road is great stuff and deserves to be read aloud. It compares quite favorably to The… — Brian Aldiss Copy Share Image
I used the word 'prose' in the Trans-Siberian in the early Latin sense of prosa dictu. Poem seemed to me too pretentious,… — Blaise Cendrars Copy Share Image
I really - I don't take my work that seriously, and I think that's what keeps me loose. If I try to… — Elmore Leonard Copy Share Image
Speech and prose are not the same thing. They have different wave-lengths, for speech moves at the speed of light, where prose… — James Kenneth Stephen Copy Share Image
I think that anyone who grew up reading and being taught the Bible, as I did, can't help but have their prose… — Ron Currie Jr Copy Share Image
I try to write in a way where you care deeply what the next paragraph will be. I hear the rhythm of… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
I fear I have not one good word to say this fair morning, though the sun shines so encouragingly on the distant… — Margaret Fuller Copy Share Image
I'm sorry I'm young," Deborah answered with a bitterness that was half prose. "We have a right to be as crazy as… — Joanne Greenberg Copy Share Image
I think the underlying purpose is expression. It's not about technique, it's not about hitting the right note, writing the perfect prose,… — Charlie Albright Copy Share Image
The Enormous Room seems to me to be the book that has nearest approached the mood of reckless adventure in which men… — John Dos Passos Copy Share Image
“I have hope in who I am becoming. I have belief in every scar and disgraceful word I have ever spoken or… — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share Image
People often ask me why my style is so simple. It is, in fact, deceptively simple, for no two sentences are alike.… — Ruskin Bond Copy Share Image
“Four very strange and truly poetic human beings in this century have attained mastery in prose, for which this century was not… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
An up-close portrait of middle-class Nigeria exploring the boundaries of morals and public decorum. Pitched between humor and despair, with stripped-down, evocative… — Nii Parkes Copy Share Image
“The great error consists in supposing that poetry is an unnatural form of language. We should all like to speak poetry at… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
I arrived at my way of "working" as a way of visually approximating what I feel the tone of fiction to be… — Chris Ware Copy Share Image
“Then he went into the dining room, consulting his watch. It was ten thirty already. More than half the morning was gone.… — Richard Matheson Copy Share Image
“Every novel which is truly written contributes to the total of knowledge which is there at the disposal of the next writer… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Glossy, efficient prose, garnished with a pinch of irony and a dab of melodrama. — Michiko Kakutani Copy Share Image
The human brain can soften as a result of incessant listening to music with an intent to commit prose. — Donal Henahan Copy Share Image
There is something about poetry beyond prose logic, there is mystery in it, not to be explained but admired. — Edward Young Copy Share Image
The way we speak is very different from the way we write - especially from the way we write continuous prose. — Michael Rosen Copy Share Image
Sociological prose can tell you everything, but it can't point out the grief. — Robert Bly Copy Share Image
Luxury has been railed at for two thousand years, in verse and in prose, and it has always been loved. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
My heavens! I've been talking prose for the last forty years without knowing it. — Moliere Copy Share Image
And what holds good of verse holds infinitely better in respect to prose. — James Payn Copy Share Image
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