Lincoln, steeped in the Bible and Shakespeare, set an impossibly high bar for presidential prose. — Jonathan Raban Copy Share Image
Prose talent depends on having something to say and an interesting, highly developed way of saying it. — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Good authors, too, who once knew better words Now use only four-letter words Writing prose - Anything goes — Cole Porter Copy Share Image
I can't be expected to produce deathless prose in an atmosphere of gloom and eucalyptus. — Gerald Durrell Copy Share Image
I don't feel like I have the intelligence to really inhabit a consistently high level of prose. — George Saunders Copy Share Image
“Watch me go. Watch me. Because you said i couldn't. Because you thought I wouldn't. Go on, cry now. Cry.” — Kellie Elmore Copy Share Image
Prose is like a window; fiction is like a door. But it is not uncommon that he who should come in through… — Mu Xin Copy Share Image
“Feelings and emotion ran through my veins like a hurricane. And that's when everything began to look like poetry. —You look like… — Altruistic Copy Share Image
The process of composition, messing around with paragraphs and trying to make really good prose, is hardwired into my personality. — Rick Moody Copy Share Image
It is also true that one can write nothing readable unless one constantly struggles to efface one's own personality. Good prose is… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
What matters is not publication or success (success is bad for your prose) but the practice of the imaginative act. Our damaged… — Janet Burroway Copy Share Image
Read a lot - poems, prose, stories, newspapers, anything. Read books and poems that you think you will like and some that… — Michael Morpurgo Copy Share Image
I grow very impatient with prose writers who don't pay attention to the cadence of the sentence. If you start as a… — Alison Hawthorne Deming Copy Share Image
I read poetry every day. I love the boiled down essence of poetry. I look for poetry in prose. In a way… — Andre Dubus Copy Share Image
In high school, in 1956, at the age of sixteen, we were not taught "creative writing." We were taught literature and grammar.… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Of little use, the man you may suppose, Who says in verse what others say in prose; Yet let me show a… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
“The Tao Te Ching is partly in prose, partly in verse; but as we define poetry now, not by rhyme and meter… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Ah! What avails the classic bent And what the cultured word, Against the undoctored incident That actually occurred? And what is Art… — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
I had real concerns about the relationship between nature and culture and places I wanted to write about... I thought, well, maybe… — Alison Hawthorne Deming Copy Share Image
“Unlike Gatsby and Tom Buchanan I had no girl whose disembodied face floated along the dark cornices and blinding signs and so… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
The best memoirs - like This Boy's Life, or Crazy Brave [by Joy Harjo], for instance - bring you through a private… — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share Image
“He left the next morning, searching for a city with light that reminded him of me. He would mail me empty envelopes… — Mikl Paul Copy Share Image
Most contemporary novels are not really "written." They obtain what reality they have largely from an accurate rendering of the noises that… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Scott could feel the contents of his stomach flip over and over on themselves. He turned to the side and retched, frothy… — R.D. Ronald Copy Share Image
Writing isn't generally a lucrative source of income; only a few, exceptional writers reach the income levels associated with the best-sellers. Rather,… — Melissa Scott Copy Share Image
I've never been able to write poetry without having vast tracts of dead time. Poetry requires a certain kind of disciplined indolence… — Christian Wiman Copy Share Image
“It's about personal development. It's about creating your own character and pushing it to the limit. It's about pushing yourself so far… — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share Image
“Take a shower. Wash away every trace of yesterday. Of smells. Of weary skin. Get dressed. Make coffee, windows open, the sun… — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share Image
Who all in raptures their own works rehearse, And drawl out measur'd prose, which they call verse. — Charles Churchill Copy Share Image
A good sentence in prose should be like a good line in poetry, unchangeable, as rhythmic, as sonorous. — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
I wish to God,” said Gideon with mild exasperation, “that you’d talk—just once—in prose like other people. — Dorothy Dunnett Copy Share Image
I suppress in my prose any language which calls attention to itself. — Jerzy Kosinski Copy Share Image
Prose-it might be speculated-is discourse; poetry ellipsis. Prose is spoken aloud; poetry overheard. — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
An essential element for good writing is a good ear: One must listen to the sound of one's own prose. — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
To hell with reality! I want to die in music, not in reason or in prose. — Louis-Ferdinand Celine Copy Share Image
An appreciation of prose is learned, not instinctive. It is an acquired taste, like Scotch whisky. — Abigail Padgett Copy Share Image
Stylized acting and direction is to realistic acting and direction as poetry is to prose. — Elia Kazan Copy Share Image
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