Prose Quotes · Page 14

The older I get, the more I seek to use a plain prose style, concentrating more on story.

— John Scott

Good Heavens! For more than forty years I have been speaking prose without knowing it.

— Moliere

If you are an autodidact, you probably do write more in the rhythm of speech rather than having learnt prose.

— Viv Albertine

I'm not as good a prose writer as I'd like to be, but I never aspired to that.

— Mark Waid

Prose poetry is not set to a melody or music so there's something freeing about it.

— William Beckett

My whole life has been a struggle between Poetry and Prose, or call it Music and Law.

— Robert Schumann

If you ever want to understand multitasking in prose, James Joyce is your man.

— Frank Delaney

“I like too many things and get all confused and hung-up running from one falling star to another til I drop.”

— Jack Kerouac

[Political] prose consists less and less of words chosen for the sake of their meaning, and more and more of phrases tacked…

— George Orwell

Histories never conclude; they just pause their prose. Their stories are, if they are truthful, untidy affairs, resistant to windings-up and sortings-out.…

— Simon Schama

A prose writer gets tired of writing prose, and wants to be a poet. So he begins every line with a capital…

— Samuel McChord Crothers

“Despite my affection for subtext and plot and prose at its best... life, it turns out, is nothing more than the finer…

— Bailey Vincent

The notes I have made are not a diary in the ordinary sense, but partly lengthy records of my spiritual experiences, and…

— Edvard Munch

A lot of times you get people writing wonderful sentences and paragraphs, and they fall in love with their prose style, but…

— James Patterson

The poet is a creator, not an iconoclast, and never will tamely endeavor to say in prose what can only be expressed…

— Edmund Clarence Stedman

If heaven is tolerant and writers are allowed (bunch of liars though they are), I wonder if they gather for coffee to…

— Lori Lansens

Now that I can see it's the queen's new clothes Now that I can hear all your poison prose Now that I…

— Andy Partridge

Composing on the typewriter, I find that I am sloughing off all my long sentences which I used to dote upon. Short,…

— T. S. Eliot

I think many people (like myself) prefer to read poetry mixed with prose; it gives you more to go by; the conventions…

— William Empson

Certainly I'm participating in an already established and awesome tradition, but it's a tradition that sort of shoots up and through the…

— Lidia Yuknavitch

“we write every day, we fight every day, we think and scheme and dream a little dream every day. manuscripts pile up…

— Tahereh Mafi

She would only point out the salvation that was latent in his own soul, and in the soul of every man. Only…

— E. M. Forster

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

If you read only the best, you will have no need of reading the other books, because the latter are nothing but…

— Anna Brackett

“In getting from Windsor to Detroit there is a choice between a free tunnel and a toll bridge, which turned out to…

— William Saroyan

Certainly for me prose has a dilatory capacity, insofar as I don't trust my abilities in prose. I imagine I could have…

— Shane McCrae

“... because one day, maybe one day, if I learned how to write clear enough, sing loud enough, be strong enough, I…

— Charlotte Eriksson

“I want to be the one you run to. I want to be the one you miss. I want your arms to…

— Rachel Nicole Wagner

I do not wish to produce prose that draws attention to itself, rather than the world it describes.

— Nick Hornby

Marriage...a book of which the first chapter is written in poetry and the remaining chapters written in prose.

— Anonymous

The language of politics is poetry, not prose. Jackson is poetry. Cuomo is poetry. Dukakis is a word processor.

— Richard M. Nixon

“a novel can best be defined as a long piece of prose with something wrong with it, and”

— Neil Gaiman

But what humans forget, cells remember. The body, that elephant

— Jeffrey Eugenides

“An author never lies. We do, however tend to speak in a fictional prose.”

— Carl Henegan

I dwell in Possibility A fairer house than Prose More numerous of Windows Superior — for Doors.

— Emily Dickinson

Don't scatter your fire! You are a prose writer: stick to your own tool!

— Sarah Orne Jewett

“My aim is to place cinema among the other art forms. To put it on a par with music, poetry, prose, etc.”

— Andrei Tarkovsky

Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over.

— Ernest Hemingway

The unit of the poet is the word, the unit of the prose writer is the sentence.

— Susan Sontag

Updike was the first to take the penile sensorium under the wing of elaborate metaphorical prose.

— Nicholson Baker