Karl Popper once advised a student that if he wanted to reap intellectual fame, he should write endless pages of obscure, high-flown… — Anthony de Jasay Copy Share Image
“... because one day, maybe one day, if I learned how to write clear enough, sing loud enough, be strong enough, I… — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share Image
Sociological prose can tell you everything, but it can't point out the grief. — Robert Bly Copy Share Image
Will there never come a season Which shall rid us from the curse? Of a prose which knows no reason And an… — James Kenneth Stephen Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The beauty of word processing, God bless my word processor, is that it keeps the plotting very fluid. The prose becomes like… — Sue Grafton Copy Share Image
There is such a thing as literary fashion, and prose and verse have been regulated by the same caprice that cuts our… — Isaac D'Israeli Copy Share Image
My heavens! I've been talking prose for the last forty years without knowing it. — Moliere Copy Share Image
“I knew it was cold, but singing familiar Christmas songs and the fellowship warmed me through and through—until we stopped in front… — Larada Horner-Miller Copy Share Image
An essential element for good writing is a good ear: One must listen to the sound of one's own prose. — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
The lucidity of the battle narratives, the vigor of the prose, the strong feeling for the men from generals to privates who… — Walter Millis 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
In my personal and spiritual life, I reject that. I don't believe in that. I'm always trying to get my mind into… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
“Most people become bankrupt through having invested too heavily in the prose of life. To have ruined one's self over poetry is… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Mother Dolores Hart's prose is a reflection of the inner beauty she has always possessed. A fascinating read... and read again! — Robert Evans Copy Share Image
With Wings of the Butterfly, John Urbancik infuses his tale of shapeshifters, romance and pack rivalry with some unexpected and welcome surprises.… — Kealan Patrick Burke Copy Share Image
A Wedding In Haiti is a great experience and its unaffected prose is as true a portrait of complex Haiti as you… — Mark Kurlansky Copy Share Image
Being incomprehensible offers unparalleled protection against having nothing to say...but writing with simplicity requires courage, for there is a danger that one… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
Despots play their part in the works of thinkers. Fettered words are terrible words. The writer doubles and trebles the power of… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
I don't suppose a writing man ever really gets rid of his old crocus-yellow neckties. Sooner or later, I think, they show… — J. D. Salinger Copy Share Image
With a profound first-hand knowledge of participants, encompassing linguistic competence, and engaging prose, Padraic Kenney recreates the simultaneously serious and playful currents… — Charles S. Maier Copy Share Image
I wish to God,” said Gideon with mild exasperation, “that you’d talk—just once—in prose like other people. — Dorothy Dunnett Copy Share Image
There is poetry even in prose, in all the great prose which is not merely utilitarian or didactic: there exist poets who… — Eugenio Montale Copy Share Image
“I paid the taxi driver, got out with my suitcase, surveyed my surroundings, and just as I was turning to ask the… — Roberto Bolaño Copy Share Image
