I'm happy to be a writer - of prose, poetry, every kind of writing. Every person in the world who isn't a… — Maya Angelou 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 can't allow what we learned in English composition to disrupt the sound and rhythm of the narrative.” — Elmore Leonard Copy Share Image
Henry Miller is a famous writer whose work has fallen out of fashion, but I strongly recommend that readers who don't know… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
“It's been the longest time Since I've been in this place, Where I spend my whole day Hoping I'll see your face.… — Emery Lord Copy Share Image
I find old copies of National Gallery catalogues, which are written in the dryest possible prose, infinitely soothing. — Howard Hodgkin Copy Share Image
I don't have a philosophy. If I had a philosophy, it's that I'm kind of literal minded. For example, I would never… — Ann Goldstein Copy Share Image
A probing analysis of the problems of evolution forms the basis of my prose. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We are difficult. Human beings are difficult. We're difficult to ourselves, we're difficult to each other. And we are mysteries to ourselves,… — Geoffrey Hill Copy Share Image
“You were the hardest year of my life and I’ve never been so happy. What does that say about me?” — Charlotte Eriksson 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
To write? Because all this is going to vanish. The only thing left will be the prose and poems, the books, what… — James Salter Copy Share Image
Lehman uses many conveyances—including the prose poem, the sestina, and curt rhymes—to travel across the writing life of a poet whose instinctive… — Ken Tucker Copy Share Image
Words in prose ought to express the intended meaning; if they attract attention to themselves, it is a fault; in the very… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Poetry is the most direct and simple means of expressing oneself in words: the most primitive nations have poetry, but only quitewell… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
People and places are the source of my work, both in prose and verse-and this remark is not the truism it seems,… — Leonard Alfred George Strong Copy Share Image
Polishing: a useful lesson for the hopeful writer. You say your tormented prose doesn't read as well as mine? Neither does mine,… — Piers Anthony Copy Share Image
The newspaper is, in fact, very bad for one's prose style. That's why I gravitated towards feature stories where you get a… — Tom Wolfe Copy Share Image
I read a lot of autobiographical stories, and I write plays and prose. And I play piano and cello. A lot of… — Alexis Dziena Copy Share Image
The prose of Joe Pulver can take its place with that of the masters of our genre – E.A. Poe, H.P. Lovecraft,… — S. T. Joshi 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
Perhaps, after all, romance did not come into one’s life with pomp and blare, like a gay knight riding down; perhaps it… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
