Poetry is a language for when you can't quite write prose about something, you can't quite say it, but if you do… — Sakyong Mipham Copy Share Image
With short stories, the story-teller must have a story to tell, not merely some sweet prose to take out for a walk — Herbert Gold Copy Share Image
In the big picture I write for an audience of people I've never met. By the final draft I'm looking for anything… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
I certainly derived my skills as a prose writer from my scrutiny of poetry and of the individual word. But schools don't… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
It has often been observed that the repercussion of poetic language on prose language can be considered a decisive cut of a… — Eugenio Montale Copy Share Image
For me, a page of good prose is where one hears the rain and the noise of battle. It has the power… — John Cheever Copy Share Image
Writers quite often starve. And I'm mainly just writing critical prose and poetry, that's a formula for starvation. — Clive James Copy Share Image
If it doesn't work horizontally as prose... it probably won't work any better vertically pretending to be poetry. — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
As a writer, I'm not just competing with other prose writers, I'm competing with TV. So I think a lot about the… — Torrey Peters Copy Share Image
My method is the magpie's: I look for shiny things. That is, I look for concrete material details of daily life, and… — Luc Sante Copy Share Image
Prose is an art form, movies and acting in general are art forms, so is music, painting, graphics, sculpture, and so on.… — Sam Lake Copy Share Image
The borderline between prose and poetry is one of those fog-shrouded literary minefields where the wary explorer gets blown to bits before… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Certainly I'm participating in an already established and awesome tradition, but it's a tradition that sort of shoots up and through the… — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share Image
“we write every day, we fight every day, we think and scheme and dream a little dream every day. manuscripts pile up… — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share Image
If you read only the best, you will have no need of reading the other books, because the latter are nothing but… — Anna Brackett Copy Share Image
She would only point out the salvation that was latent in his own soul, and in the soul of every man. Only… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
“I am constantly torn between the will to be seen and still hidden so god damn well, a contradiction I never figured… — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share Image
Melissa Pritchard's prose, that darkly lyrical firmament, is brightened by the dizzy luminous arrangement of her stars and satellites, her great gifts… — Antonya Nelson Copy Share Image
“The hardest thing in the world to do is to write straight honest prose on human beings. First you to know the… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
The four great motives for writing prose are sheer egoism, esthetic enthusiasm, historical impulse, and political purpose. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
My experience is that prose usually equals duty - last minute, overdue-deadline stuff or a panic lecture to be written. — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
“I haven’t been very impressed lately. By people, or places, or the way someone said he loved me and then slowly changed… — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share Image
I think each writer has to seek her most energetic prose style. She has to find a way to write so that… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
If you like the precision and concision of poetry, a page of prose is unsatisfying in a certain way. And poetry is… — Helen Vendler Copy Share Image
A great actor is independent of the poet, because the supreme essence of feeling does not reside in prose or in verse,… — Lee Strasberg Copy Share Image
“The boy raised the can to his nose and smelled, his lips wrinkling back as if he'd caught the business end of… — R.J. Lawrence Copy Share Image
I like to write with a lot of emotion and a lot of power. Sometimes I overdo it; sometimes my prose is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Mediocrity is now, as formerly, dangerous, commonly fatal, to the poet; but among even the successful writers of prose, those who rise… — William E. Gladstone Copy Share Image
You don't have to be as good a writer to write a song; it's a very different process to writing straight prose.… — Tom Odell Copy Share Image
Demanding historical (or scientific) veracity as a prerequisite for truth is another kind of tunnel vision. To do so is to mistake… — Charles Kimball Copy Share Image
I'm a big admirer of Daniel Woodrell for his beautiful, precise, sparse prose - I don't do succinct well, so I'm in… — Tana French Copy Share Image
There's a half-conscious state you enter when you're actually generating prose, and you are simply a better writer in that place. In… — John Jeremiah Sullivan Copy Share Image
Growing up in Malaysia and England, there wasn't an obvious route into the comics world, so my creative energy went into theatre… — Arvind Ethan David Copy Share Image
I think there's something quite interesting about the almost tragic quality of a lot of overwrought prose, because it has a much… — China Mieville Copy Share Image
I believe the novella is the perfect form of prose fiction. It is the beautiful daughter of a rambling, bloated ill-shaven giant… — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
“Closer, it’s all right. Touch the man of grief. Do. Don’t be afraid. My troubles are mine and I am the only… — Sophocles Copy Share Image
A lot of artists use memories. A lot of prose writers, a lot of poets, a lot of songwriters, refer back to… — Paul McCartney Copy Share Image
Prose is in fact the museum where the dead images of verse are preserved. In 'Notes', prose is 'a museum where all… — T. E. Hulme Copy Share Image
Occasionally I find a travel book that is both illuminating and entertaining, where vivid writing and research replace self-indulgence and sloppy prose. — Arthur Smith Copy Share Image
“I never liked the term “experimental writing,” but what else is a prose poem? Having written a number of them, I still… — Russell Edson Copy Share Image
