Here lies a plain and simple Jew who wrote in plain and simple prose. — Sholom Aleichem Copy Share Image
“Prose: words in their best order; poetry: the best words in the best order.” — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
My plays are made up of long monologues, which is similar to prose working with the language — Elfriede Jelinek Copy Share Image
We allude to the short prose narrative, requiring from a half hour to one or two hours in its perusal — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
A merely great intellect can produce prose, but not poetry, not one line. — Edward Thomas Copy Share Image
Prose is prose because of what it includes; poetry is poetry because of what it leaves out. — Marvin Bell Copy Share Image
My preference is for prose with more silence in it, language that contains more pockets of strangeness. — Anthony Doerr Copy Share Image
I want the concentration and the romance, and the worlds all glued together, fused, glowing: have no time to waste any more… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
My husband makes fun of me, because I know I can use strong prose to jazz-hand my way through plot that isn't… — Kelly Sue DeConnick Copy Share Image
“Prose consists less and less of words chosen for the sake of their meaning, and more and more of phrases tacked together… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
I really don't have a lot in common with the people who attend the Comic Con. It's like assuming that all people… — Harvey Pekar Copy Share Image
Art, whatever form it takes, requires hard work, craftsmanship and creativity. As a writer, I know my grammar, cadence, the music of… — F. Sionil Jose Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“[A]lways 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
“I wouldn't give ten gallons of my own piss for clear sentence that gives the sense of a tree as a tree,… — David Joseph Cribbin Copy Share Image
Self-publishing in comics is core to the whole artform. There is no scarlet letter in comics as there still is, to some… — Kieron Gillen Copy Share Image
Voice is the je ne sais quoi of spirited writing. It separates brochures and brilliance, memo and memoir, a ship's log and… — Constance Hale Copy Share Image
If the British prose style is Churchillian, America is the tobacco auctioneer, the barker; Runyon, Lardner, W.W., the traveling salesman who can… — Ishmael Reed Copy Share Image
“It doesn’t matter how many times you leave, it will always hurt to come back and remember what you once had and… — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share Image
My friends tell me that I am an intruder, that I don't really write when I attempt poetry. But those of my… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
External realities - worlds of politics, economics, law, war, interpersonal and social relations - are part of prose fiction. Fiction also includes… — Lawrence Joseph Copy Share Image
Three words that still have meaning, that I think we can apply to all professional writing, are discovery, originality, invention.The professional writer… — John Dos Passos Copy Share Image
to look back on one's life is to experience the capriciousness of memory. ... the past is not static. It can be… — P. D. James Copy Share Image
“It could be yesterday when I was less in love I think For I didn’t see you in the mirror behind me… — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share Image
“It is not certain whether the effects of totalitarianism upon verse need be so deadly as its effects on prose. There is… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
You have to seduce the reader, manipulate their mind and heart, listen to the music of language. I sometimes think of prose… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
“Feel no regret for roses, autumn too has its delights...How could she say that? Didn't she see that for us there could… — Raphael Carter Copy Share Image
“I am not a finished poem, and I am not the song you’ve turned me into. I am a detached human being,… — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share Image
I've been writing for a long time, since the late '60s. But it hasn't been in the same form. I used to… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
“The Waterfall and the Sea" "Her love and passion are a waterfall, fed from the wellspring of her heart, gently tumbling into… — Christopher Earle Copy Share Image
What did Nabokov and Joyce have in common, apart from the poor teeth and the great prose? Exile, and decades of near… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
Behind the perfection of a man's style, must lie the passion of a man's soul. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Warfare is the father of all good things, it is also the father of good prose! — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“This world can be quite wonderful once you let yourself be a part of it.” — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share Image
The gap between verse and poetry is enormous. Between good poetry and good prose the gap is much narrower — Michael Longley Copy Share Image
I like to move around in the landscape between poetry and prose, between the lyrical and the narrative. — Rigoberto Gonzalez Copy Share Image
“The displacement of water is equal to the something of something.” — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
![“[A]lways get to the dialogue as soon as possible. I always feel the thing to go for is speed. Nothing puts the reader off more than a big slab of prose at the start." (Interview, The Paris Review , Issue 64, Winter 1975)” quote by P.G. Wodehouse](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/989/p-g-wodehouse-723_communication_a-lways-get-to-the-dialogue-as-soon-as-p_13316.jpg)
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