Prose is a poor thing, a poor inadequate thing, compared with poetry which says so much more in shorter time. — Vita Sackville-West Copy Share Image
“An artist must be passionately in love with her art. Obsessed or possessed ― go mad for what you believe in.” — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share Image
I love writing prose. I really love writing prose. It's very pleasurable for me. — Marjorie Liu Copy Share Image
When I first wanted to be a writer, I learned to write prose by reading poetry. — Nicholson Baker Copy Share Image
I was 14 or 15 when I discovered poetry, and I pretty much stopped writing prose until Master of Reality. — John Darnielle Copy Share Image
A merely great intellect can produce prose, but not poetry, not one line. — Edward Thomas Copy Share Image
My plays are made up of long monologues, which is similar to prose working with the language — Elfriede Jelinek Copy Share Image
One could go on revising a prose page forever whereas there is a point in a poem when one knows it is… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
“When the others were picked up and walked home by friends or fathers or best friend’s sisters, I was the kid in… — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share Image
Root out all the "to be" verbs in your prose and bludgeon them until dead. No "It was" or "they are" or… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Prose cannot compete with the economy of poetry, the ability to have a full artistic experience in a short period of time. — Mary Karr Copy Share Image
Find what gave you emotion; what the action was that gave you excitement. Then write it down making it clear so that… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“Prose consists less and less of words chosen for the sake of their meaning, and more and more of phrases tacked together… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
[Louis] Brandeis improves the prose. He simplifies it and perfects the balance of the sentence so it becomes even more memorable and… — Jeffrey Rosen Copy Share Image
The lines of poetry, the period of prose, and even the texts of Scripture most frequently recollected and quoted, are those which… — William Shenstone Copy Share Image
He turns and walks away, moving so quickly that the candle flames shiver with the motion of the air. “I miss you,”… — Erin Morgenstern Copy Share Image
Being incomprehensible offers unparalleled protection against having nothing to say...but writing with simplicity requires courage, for there is a danger that one… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
Edith Wharton was a natural story-teller. As plots do in real life, hers flow directly from character. Her prose is so effortlessly… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
We must never underestimate our power to be wrong when talking about God, when thinking about God, when imagining God, whether in… — Brian D. McLaren Copy Share Image
Prose-it might be speculated-is discourse; poetry ellipsis. Prose is spoken aloud; poetry overheard. The one is presumably articulate and social, a shared… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
Self-publishing in comics is core to the whole artform. There is no scarlet letter in comics as there still is, to some… — Kieron Gillen Copy Share Image
Alethea Black can drop you into a dream with a single sentence, then convince you it's real. Her characters' best hopes and… — Ralph Lombreglia Copy Share Image
Helen Lowe writes wonderful stories, yes, but her work also speaks with lyricism to deeper questions of how we treat each other.… — Catherine Asaro Copy Share Image
“Each of these passages has faults of its own, but, quite apart from avoidable ugliness, two qualities are common to all of… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“I will not mention the name (and what bits of it I happen to give here appear in decorous disguise) of that… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
As I glanced at the phraseology of the research report, dull and unfathomable to outsiders like me, I thought that if you… — Jon Ronson Copy Share Image
I always was interested in prose. As a teenager, I published short stories. And I always wanted to write the long short… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
“I am, in large measure, the selfsame prose I write. I unroll myself in sentences and paragraphs, I punctuate myself. In my… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
My Family and Other Saints echoes Gerald Durrell's classic memoir, My Family and Other Animals, not only in its title, but in… — Judith Barrington Copy Share Image
I'm often a little perplexed, when I read a review of a book, by the quotes that are pulled out as evidence… — Katie Kitamura Copy Share Image
“I wish life could be edited as deftly as prose. It would be nice to go back and write a better story,… — Sue Grafton Copy Share Image
We allude to the short prose narrative, requiring from a half hour to one or two hours in its perusal — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
Prose is prose because of what it includes; poetry is poetry because of what it leaves out. — Marvin Bell Copy Share Image
My preference is for prose with more silence in it, language that contains more pockets of strangeness. — Anthony Doerr Copy Share Image
Behind the perfection of a man's style, must lie the passion of a man's soul. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Yet you stand, too ashamed to run, too fearful to embrace. God I see so much of what I love in that… — Suenammi Richards Copy Share Image
In painting as in prose, a good eye is not enough to tell you whether what you see is real or fake. — David Bellos Copy Share Image
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