Prose Quotes · Page 16

And write what you love - don't feel pressured to write serious prose if what you like is to be funny.

— Cassandra Clare

“An author never lies. We do, however tend to speak in a fictional prose.”

— Carl Henegan

I dwell in Possibility A fairer house than Prose More numerous of Windows Superior — for Doors.

— Emily Dickinson

Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over.

— Ernest Hemingway

“My aim is to place cinema among the other art forms. To put it on a par with music, poetry, prose, etc.”

— Andrei Tarkovsky

Don't scatter your fire! You are a prose writer: stick to your own tool!

— Sarah Orne Jewett

The unit of the poet is the word, the unit of the prose writer is the sentence.

— Susan Sontag

According to [Maxine Hong] Kingston, the prose writer is "a workhorse."

— Shirley Geok-lin Lim

The poet is a creator, not an iconoclast, and never will tamely endeavor to say in prose what can only be expressed…

— Edmund Clarence Stedman

A prose writer gets tired of writing prose, and wants to be a poet. So he begins every line with a capital…

— Samuel McChord Crothers

Polyphonic prose is a kind of free verse, except that it is still freer. Polyphonic makes full use of cadence, rime, alliteration,…

— Amy Lowell

“Despite my affection for subtext and plot and prose at its best... life, it turns out, is nothing more than the finer…

— Bailey Vincent

Speech recognition is utterly crap for writing fiction. If you try reading a novel aloud you'll soon figure out why - written…

— Charles Stross

If heaven is tolerant and writers are allowed (bunch of liars though they are), I wonder if they gather for coffee to…

— Lori Lansens

“I suppose that's how it looks in prose. But it's very different if you look at it through poetry…and I think it's…

— L.M. Montgomery

Poetry is its own medium; it's very different than writing prose. Poetry can talk in an imagistic sense, it has particular ways…

— Story Musgrave

[John Adams's] vividly descriptive prose is supremely quotable. Adams wears his heart on his sleeve and reveals all of his ambitions, doubts,…

— Gordon S. Wood

When interviewing for a job, tell the editor how you love to report. How your passion is gathering information. Do not mention…

— Michael Hastings

At the emergence of the modern novel with Rabelais and Cervantes, all kinds of things were possible in a long-form prose work.…

— Teju Cole

“We weren’t happy together but we lived in a state of easy, mild contentment. We shared everything except the stupid fucking secret…

— Jon Gresham

“There are very few friends that will lie down with you on empty streets in the middle of the night, without a…

— Charlotte Eriksson

I think when you're writing prose there's a lot of attendant description and that's were I used to really go bananas. With…

— Diablo Cody

As a blogger, Chez Pazienza is filled with outrage, passion and insight -- delivered with a distinctive point of view, a wicked…

— Arianna Huffington

Fiction isn't made by scraping the bones of topicality for the last shreds and sinews, to be processed into mechanically recovered prose.…

— Hilary Mantel

“Later when they would mention, they would say, and everyone would know, but not nearly as well as they meant.”

— Mikl Paul

It is a way we reassess our past. We can do that in poetry in ways we can't do in prose.

— Peter Davison

“They rolled up the path, tree branches raking the windshield like angry wardens.”

— R.J. Lawrence

I have a much greater ambition to be the best racket player than the best prose writer.

— William Hazlitt

Prose is a photography, poetry is a painting in oil-colors.

— Austin O'Malley

“A forced contemplation of the heavens, crisp and angelic blue, a classic prelude to death.”

— Rachel Kushner

Before you came the world was prose. Now poetry is born.

— Nizar Qabbani

Jack Kerouac did what he most wanted to do. He wrote great prose. He became the writer he wanted to be.

— Joyce Johnson

“I seek the city because there is nothing sweeter than not being alone in your loneliness.”

— Charlotte Eriksson

“To write past events in the present tense adds immediacy to your prose. ~Yvonne Blackwood”

— Yvonne Blackwood

David Bergen is a master of taut, spare prose that's both erotic and hypnotic. . . .

— Miriam Toews

MARRIAGE, Is a book in which the first chapter is written in poetry and the rest of the book is prose;

— Nikhil Saluja

I can manage a prose format as long as I keep closer to Laurence Sterne than to Henry James.

— David Antin

And now more than anything I want beautiful prose. I relish it more and more exquisitely.

— Virginia Woolf

The best prose is written by authors who see their universe with a poet’s eyes.

— Vera Brittain

I don't think there's any essential difference, at least for me, between writing poetry and writing prose.

— Jorge Luis Borges