Prose is not to be read aloud but to oneself alone at night, and it is not quick as poetry but rather… — Henry Green Copy Share Image
The process of composition, messing around with paragraphs and trying to make really good prose, is hardwired into my personality. — Rick Moody Copy Share Image
The second volume of Reiner Stach's epic biography of Franz Kafka . . . [is] a tangle of counter-grained and often under-sourced… — Steve Donoghue Copy Share Image
Romance like a ghost escapes touching; it is always where you are not, not where you are. The interview or conversation was… — George William Curtis Copy Share Image
...the best figurative poetry speaks not to the frivolous intellect, but (if anything does) straight to the heart; and does it better… — Austin Farrer Copy Share Image
Gil Thorpe is a great diversion and is to book writing as poetry is to prose. — Jerry B. Jenkins Copy Share Image
Krzhizhanovsky wanted to perform imaginary experiments with the nature of time and space. Outside, in the streets, the Communist state was busy… — Adam Thirlwell Copy Share Image
The simple Wordsworth . . . / Who, both by precept and example, shows / That prose is verse, and verse is merely prose. — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
I spend eight months outlining and researching the novel before I begin to write a single word of the prose. — Jeffery Deaver Copy Share Image
There are some simple maxims which I think might be commended to writers of expository prose. First: never use a long word… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
There’s a reason humans peg-out around eighty: prose fatigue. It looks like organ failure or cancer or stroke but it’s really just… — Glen Duncan Copy Share Image
Barry recounts all this in prose of often startling beauty. Just as he describes people stopping in the street to look at… — Margot Livesey Copy Share Image
Each time I undertake to reread Virginia Woolf, I am somewhat baffled by the signature breathlessness and relentlessly "poetic" tone, the shimmering… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
“The great error consists in supposing that poetry is an unnatural form of language. We should all like to speak poetry at… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Poetry is very playful with language. I think all poetry, at its heart, is playful. It's doing unusual and playful things with… — Pattiann Rogers Copy Share Image
Of course, I have to consider that I've written a lot of prose, but I do in my heart think of myself… — Vikram Seth Copy Share Image
Apart from a few simple principles, the sound and rhythm of English prose seem to me matters where both writers and readers… — F. L. Lucas Copy Share Image
Kaethe Schwehn's poignant memoir explores longing, both spiritual and physical, community and faith, in prose that is calm, lovely, and filled with… — Dinty W. Moore Copy Share Image
Sometimes I make films about scenes other filmmakers would leave out, so I just make the film out of all the things… — Jim Jarmusch Copy Share Image
The only imaginative prose writer of the slightest value who has appeared among the English-speaking races for some years past. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
I wanted to be a writer. I still want to be a prose writer. I feel I am more temperamentally suited to… — Juliana Hatfield Copy Share Image
I like bringing poetry's focus on figurative language and compression into the essay. Of course, the musical properties of language, the cadence… — Alison Hawthorne Deming 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
