“Most important thing in life is family, Without them you are nothing. Whatever you do will be worth nothing, If there is… — Akash Lakhotia Copy Share Image
'Swan,' by Mary Oliver. Poems and prose. Reading from this book is as if visiting a very wise friend. There is wisdom… — Jessye Norman Copy Share Image
When I feel something very intensely or deeply or personally, I can go to extremes of self-expression or self-analysis by writing a… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
“Every poet... finds himself born in the midst of prose. He has to struggle from the littleness and obstruction of an actual… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
There are a lot of editorials that have nothing to do with anything like that. But I was just thinking of that… — Robert Creeley Copy Share Image
The simple Wordsworth . . . / Who, both by precept and example, shows / That prose is verse, and verse is merely prose. — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
“If you must write prose or poems, the words you use should be your own. Don't plagiarize or take 'on loan'. There's… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The reading of tourist prospectuses is one of the joys of the world -- it is like operetta in prose -- all… — Marsden Hartley Copy Share Image
Somehow, the words don't have any vitality, any life to them, unless I can feel it marking on a paper. That's how… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
At some point, sitting in the school library, during reading period, I looked up from my leopard print hardcover composition notebook where… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
But every great scripture, whether Hebrew, Indian, Persian, or Chinese, apart from its religious value will be found to have some rare… — Lafcadio Hearn Copy Share Image
Writing for publication is an art, a craft, and a business, so you need to develop skill sets in multiple areas. You… — Brian Hodge Copy Share Image
“My prose was clunky compared to his. I got hung up on diction and syntax; I agonized over every word. Matt's prose… — M. Pierce Copy Share Image
I started out in life as a poet; I was only writing poetry all through my 20s. It wasn't until I was… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
I've seen a lot of patriots and they all died just like anybody else if it hurt bad enough and once they… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
If the rules of a language are followed, words usually make sense. But these very rules can stir the impulse to rebel.… — Joanna Scott Copy Share Image
A prose that is altogether alive demands something of the reader that the ordinary novel reader is not prepared to give. — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
“And perhaps, I'm a Tuesday night and you're a Wednesday morning the way we'll never even notice how we blend into each… — Danabelle Gutierrez Copy Share Image
Gritty and witty, The Chicago Way is done the classic Raymond Chandler Way. Harvey's taut plot, snappy prose, and memorable characters make… — Kathy Reichs Copy Share Image
The very best moment of writing 'Swamplandia!' was when I figured out what the ending should be. And even though I changed… — Karen Russell Copy Share Image
Howard's enchanting Hospice obeys its own magical inner logic with excellent prose and a sadness that will split open hearts. You have… — Deb Olin Unferth Copy Share Image
The snow was too light to stay, the ground too warm to keep it. And the strange spring snow fell only in… — Shannon Hale Copy Share Image
“The prose poem for me becomes a kind of chamber with no way out… a kind of hunt, because what is hunt… — Sabrina Orah Mark Copy Share Image
Prose should have a flow, the forward momentum of a certain energized weight; it should feel like a voice tumbling in your… — John Updike Copy Share Image
Always get to the dialogue as soon as possible. I always feel the thing to go for is speed. Nothing puts the… — P. G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
Respect the language in which you write. Be kind, develop good vocabulary, and be creative in writing beautiful sentences. Your prose should… — Ruskin Bond Copy Share Image
Rachel Cusk's books are like pop-up volumes for grown-ups, the prose springing out of the page to bop you neatly between the… — Julie Burchill Copy Share Image
one reason why I like writing poetry - you can say so many things in it that are true in poetry but… — Lucy Maud Montgomery Copy Share Image
“...and I laugh and I spin and dance and frolic in ecstasy and I... I hurt no more, while you...you petrified little… — Kellie Elmore Copy Share Image
Kelly Link's prose is conveyed in details so startling and fine that you work up a sweat just waiting for the next… — Tea Obreht Copy Share Image
There are lots of guys out there who write a better prose line than I do and who have a better understanding… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I'll never be a minimalist. The fact that the prose is more tightly controlled doesn't for a minute mean that it's minimalist.… — China Mieville Copy Share Image
The beauty of prose fiction that I see is simply that in order to create something you need only pay attention to… — James Kelman Copy Share Image
“. . . I suppose one starts out, as a child, being romantic and dreaming of adventure. Poetic. Then reality comes along,… — Roberta Pearce Copy Share Image
“Within her simple, terrified mind, swift calculations of distance and speed were at work, and her face advertised the disappointing results.” — R.J. Lawrence Copy Share Image
“As his dark closet shows, Bluebeard was a collector at heart, and even after dispatching a wife, could not let her fully… — Shuli Barzilai Copy Share Image
And write what you love - dont feel pressured to write serious prose if what you like is to be funny. You're… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
Mediocre prose might be read as an escape, might be spoken on television by actors, or mouthed in movies. But mediocre poetry… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
I've always been interested in writing prose. I doubt anything will come of that, but I like the idea of creating things… — Alex G Copy Share Image
Sunlight 's a thing that needs a window Before it enter a dark room. Windows don't happen." So two old poets, Hunched… — R. S. Thomas Copy Share Image
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