Prose Quotes · Page 13

The prose as such has to be singing the song the story is telling.

— Leonard Michaels

The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mold of the body and mind.

— Virginia Woolf

We can write the new chapters in a visual language whose prose and poetry will need no translation.

— Ernst Haas

In painting as in prose, a good eye is not enough to tell you whether what you see is real or fake.

— David Bellos

'At the Gates of the Animal Kingdom' by Amy Hempel showed me the lean quality of prose.

— Chuck Palahniuk

Here lies a plain and simple Jew who wrote in plain and simple prose.

— Sholom Aleichem

“Prose: words in their best order; poetry: the best words in the best order.”

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

My plays are made up of long monologues, which is similar to prose working with the language

— Elfriede Jelinek

Prose cannot compete with the economy of poetry, the ability to have a full artistic experience in a short period of time.

— Mary Karr

Find what gave you emotion; what the action was that gave you excitement. Then write it down making it clear so that…

— Ernest Hemingway

Root out all the "to be" verbs in your prose and bludgeon them until dead. No "It was" or "they are" or…

— Barbara Kingsolver

[Louis] Brandeis improves the prose. He simplifies it and perfects the balance of the sentence so it becomes even more memorable and…

— Jeffrey Rosen

The lines of poetry, the period of prose, and even the texts of Scripture most frequently recollected and quoted, are those which…

— William Shenstone

There's a perception that good writing is writing which runs smoothly. But smooth-running prose can work against what you're trying to express…

— Katie Kitamura

I want the concentration and the romance, and the worlds all glued together, fused, glowing: have no time to waste any more…

— Virginia Woolf

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

When interviewing for a job, tell the editor how you love to report. How your passion is gathering information. Do not mention…

— Michael Hastings

Helen Lowe writes wonderful stories, yes, but her work also speaks with lyricism to deeper questions of how we treat each other.…

— Catherine Asaro

Alethea Black can drop you into a dream with a single sentence, then convince you it's real. Her characters' best hopes and…

— Ralph Lombreglia

Long before the idea of a writer's conference was a glimmer in anyone's eye, writers learned by reading the work of their…

— Francine Prose

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

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

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

“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

I always was interested in prose. As a teenager, I published short stories. And I always wanted to write the long short…

— Sylvia Plath

“I am, in large measure, the selfsame prose I write. I unroll myself in sentences and paragraphs, I punctuate myself. In my…

— Fernando Pessoa

“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

“It is not certain whether the effects of totalitarianism upon verse need be so deadly as its effects on prose. There is…

— George Orwell

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

“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

“Invisible prose only!" rules out the sparkling style of [writers]. . . For [whom] vivid prose, and the visionary mind it evinces,…

— Diane Ackerman

“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

We allude to the short prose narrative, requiring from a half hour to one or two hours in its perusal

— Edgar Allan Poe

A merely great intellect can produce prose, but not poetry, not one line.

— Edward Thomas

Nobody has time for your priceless prose. Get to the point.

— Jim Michaels

Prose is prose because of what it includes; poetry is poetry because of what it leaves out.

— Marvin Bell

My preference is for prose with more silence in it, language that contains more pockets of strangeness.

— Anthony Doerr

Behind the perfection of a man's style, must lie the passion of a man's soul.

— Oscar Wilde

Prose is a museum, where all the old weapons of poetry are kept

— T. E. Hulme

Warfare is the father of all good things, it is also the father of good prose!

— Friedrich Nietzsche