When I am writing a novel I try not to read great prose stylists into which I will fall. — Frederick Busch Copy Share Image
“Poetry, at the best, does us a kind of violence that prose fiction rarely attempts or accomplishes.” — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
The age is materialistic. Verse isn't. I must be with the age, so I am writing prose. — Paul Laurence Dunbar Copy Share Image
A lot of shows are more script-driven, like a prose script. As an actor, you never see a storyboard. — Tom Kenny Copy Share Image
To my mind, most prose poems are more prose than poetry. They don't possess most of the qualities of a poem. — Pattiann Rogers Copy Share Image
As a prose writer, I work with language; and those who work with language turn to poetry for renewal. — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
Sociological prose is generally written without images in an exact form for an academic audience. — Robert Bly Copy Share Image
I think poetry is a fabulous medium to encapsulate thoughts far more precisely than prose. — Kapil Sibal Copy Share Image
The prose of Joe Pulver can take its place with that of the masters of our genre – E.A. Poe, H.P. Lovecraft,… — S. T. Joshi Copy Share Image
Prose is like this big block - you write big paragraphs. I feel that when I'm reading and writing, that a prose… — Bill Callahan Copy Share Image
A breezy style is often the work of an egocentric, the person who imagines that everything that pops into his head is… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
So long as I remain alive and well I shall continue to feel strongly about prose style, to love the surface of… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
I came to realize that far more important to me than any plot or conventional sense was the sheer directionality I felt… — Ben Lerner Copy Share Image
Keep your exclamation points under control. You are allowed no more than two or three per 100,000 words of prose. — Elmore Leonard Copy Share Image
Maggie Shipstead's prose is so graceful and muscular, so dazzling, so sure-handed and fearless, that at times I had to remind myself… — Maria Semple Copy Share Image
“In the story of life, the prologue and epilogue are written by God. Yet the plot has been given to us; therefore… — James D. Maxon Copy Share Image
The only valid reason to use clichés is in the speech of a character. Cliches are indications of sloppy writing. The writer… — Leonard Bishop Copy Share Image
With Wings of the Butterfly, John Urbancik infuses his tale of shapeshifters, romance and pack rivalry with some unexpected and welcome surprises.… — Kealan Patrick Burke Copy Share Image
It is in this matter that I fall foul of so many American writers on writing; they seem to think that writing… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
In general, I would think that at present prose writers are much in advance of the poets. In the old days, I… — William H. Gass Copy Share Image
To me, the process of writing is just reading what I've written and - like running your hand over one of those… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
All great questions must be raised by great voices, and the greatest voice is the voice of the people - speaking out… — Robert Kennedy Copy Share Image
I love that moment in writing when language falls short. There is something more there. A larger body. Even by the failure… — Susan Griffin Copy Share Image
Thinking in prose is different. I gained an immense amount of respect for people who write prose, and also felt even more… — Matthew Zapruder Copy Share Image
“He tried to measure his day by tallying the hours on his wrist. I wiped it off and called him a prisoner.… — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
. . . you [film critics] always overstress the value of images. You judge films in the first place by their visual… — Orson Welles Copy Share Image
It may be safely affirmed that there neither is, nor can be, any essential difference between the language of prose and metrical… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
He was a physicist, more precisely an astrophysicist, diligent and eager but without illusions: the Truth lay beyond, inaccessible to our telescopes,… — Primo Levi Copy Share Image
Clyde Phillip Wachsberger's delightful memoir about tending beds of flowers as compensation for a lonely middle age only to find unexpected romance… — Philip Gambone Copy Share Image
“I was never afraid of the dark and I spent my youth walking through empty playgrounds at midnight, worried mothers telling girls… — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share Image
“There, arrows are thrown slowly — but they hurt. The first arrow comes from a one-sided decision — as though only one… — Tommy Wibowo Copy Share Image
Will there never come a season Which shall rid us from the curse? Of a prose which knows no reason And an… — James Kenneth Stephen Copy Share Image
Metaphors are an interesting example of creating magic in prose. — Francesca Lia Block Copy Share Image
The novel is a prose narrative of some length that has something wrong with it. — Randall Jarrell Copy Share Image
It has been said that good prose should resemble the conversation of a well-bred man. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“Sleeping Atlantis Silent cool waters dancing upon her skin ~ silent cool water ushering dreams within...” — Muse Copy Share Image
I read a lot of prose poetry and get inspired by more-so just a state of mind. — William Beckett Copy Share Image
![“. . . you [film critics] always overstress the value of images. You judge films in the first place by their visual impact instead of looking for content. This is a great disservice to the cinema. It is like judging a novel only by the quality of its prose. I was guilty of the same sin when I first…” quote by Orson Welles](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/871/orson-welles-1628_cinema_you-film-critics-always-overstress-the-v_573619.jpg)
