“I am a free soul, singing my heart out by myself no matter where I go and I call strangers my friends… — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share Image
Prose gets divided up into fiction and nonfiction and short fiction and long fiction and autobiographical nonfiction and so on. Poetry can… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
The inimitable writer Maxine Hong Kingston published a book in 2002 with the title To Be the Poet. However, in contrast to… — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
Who among us has not, in moments of ambition, dreamt of the miracle of a form of poetic prose, musical but without… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
There should be two main objectives in ordinary prose writing: to convey a message and to include in it nothing that will… — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
The Ploughmen is as good a book as I’ve read in years. Kim Zupan’s language is as rich as Cormac McCarthy’s, and… — Rick DeMarinis Copy Share Image
The only way to increase it is to cultivate your own garden. And the only thing that will help you is poetry,… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
What you want is practice, practice, practice. It doesn’t matter what we write (at least this is my view) at our age,… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The definition of good prose is proper words in their proper places; of good verse, the most proper words in their proper… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Who among us has not dreamt, in moments of ambition, of the miracle of a poetic prose, musical without rhythm and rhyme,… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
Merrie Destefano storms the world of urban fantasy with AFTERLIFE, breathing new life into the vast genre of the undead. Gritty, poignant,… — Tosca Lee Copy Share Image
It is not brilliance or facility that is necessary, but the determination to bear and even enjoy the dull process of wading… — Stewart O'Nan Copy Share Image
I wish my prose to be transparentI don't want the reader to stumble over me; I want him to look through what… — V. S. Naipaul Copy Share Image
David Foster Wallace was a brilliant experimentalist who I deeply admire. His ability to do formalism helped me understand how to tackle… — Alexander Weinstein Copy Share Image
Even in a crowded field, it is a rare pleasure to come across a prose stylist like Kellie Wells, whose intellect and… — Jaimy Gordon Copy Share Image
Nima Shirazi's is an important progressive voice in the Iran debate in the West, often deconstructing the myths (and sometimes propaganda) we… — Hooman Majd Copy Share Image
It all depends on what I'm working on and if there is a deadline involved. Anything that's headed toward a magazine or… — Kevin Keck Copy Share Image
Social questions are too sectional, too topical, too temporal to move a man to the mighty effort which is needed to produce… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Much modern prose is praised for its terseness, its scrupulous avoidance of curlicue, etcetera. But I don't feel the deeper rhythm there.… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
Instead of creating aesthetically pleasing prose, you have to dig into a product or service, uncover the reasons why consumers would want… — Robert W. Bly Copy Share Image
“I would really like to have had the guts and the energy and so on to be able to write about, you… — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
The word 'creative' refers simply to the use of literary craft in presenting nonfiction—that is, factually accurate prose about real people and… — Lee Gutkind Copy Share Image
The Hours is in fact a lovely triumph. Cunningham honors both Mrs. Dalloway and its creator with unerring sensitivity, thanks to his… — Gail Caldwell Copy Share Image
In all my work, in the movies I write, the lyrics, the poetry, the prose, the essays, I am saying that we… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
See how weak prose is… Presently I shall go to a bar and there one or two poets will speak to me… — Jack Spicer Copy Share Image
I think readers are always patient. Look at the 'Harry Potter' series. Some have given up on this generation of kids as… — Dave Gibbons Copy Share Image
My sole inspiration is a telephone call from a director. ... (when asked who wrote 'Some Enchanted Evening') Rodgers and Hammerstein, if… — Cole Porter Copy Share Image
I'm primarily a poet, so I'd have to say in my case I'd investigate the mystery in poetry in a different way… — Pattiann Rogers Copy Share Image
“Niko? I have decided to christen this little pool Le Cagot's Soul." "Oh?" "Yes. Because it is clear and pure and lucid."… — Trevanian Copy Share Image
“It's too short,' she said, 'ever so much too short.' Never did anybody look so sad. Bitter and black, half-way down, in… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
I love the necessary ambiguity of short stories - there simply isn't time to render every detail, so much of the story… — Matthew Healy Copy Share Image
I've seen plays that are, objectively, total messes that move me in ways that their tidier brethren do not. That's the romantic… — Ben Brantley Copy Share Image
The advent of the internet has made so many things possible. Self- published recreational journalism has always been around; but back when… — Teresa Nielsen Hayden Copy Share Image
“When he asks you why you chose alone all these years. Tell him that it’s because you love with all claws and… — Danabelle Gutierrez Copy Share Image
Not to make him blush, but any story illustrated by Mike Mignola does things that prose alone can't accomplish. The illustrations create… — Christopher Golden Copy Share Image
“To want to give to prose the rhythm of verse (but keeping it very much prose), and to want to write about… — Gustav Flaubert Copy Share Image
Nothing is more satisfying than to write a good sentence. It is no fun to write lumpishly, dully, in prose the reader… — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
In rich and captivating prose, Jessica DuLong kindly invites the rest of us on the journey of her lifetime: from a dot-com… — Jon Meacham Copy Share Image
“...she ventured to recommend a larger allowance of prose in his daily study; and on being requested to particularise, mentioned such works… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
The hardest thing to do is to write straight honest prose on human beings. First you have to know the subject; then… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
