One of the best known, and one of the least intelligible, facts of literary history is the lateness, in Western European Literature… — George Saintsbury Copy Share Image
There was a f**king review in f**king Melody Maker [of the first BOSSANOVA single, 'Velouria'] - 'Sounds like someone's been taking singing… — Black Francis Copy Share Image
It is not brilliance or facility that is necessary, but the determination to bear and even enjoy the dull process of wading… — Stewart O'Nan Copy Share Image
I found it incredibly challenging to write clear prose that had the dynamism that I wanted. — Alex Lemon Copy Share Image
One of the most important differences I see between prose and poetry is the music of the language. — Pattiann Rogers Copy Share Image
After Pope, in the beginning of Romanticism, people developed the idea that imagination rather than reason was a special form of knowledge… — Robert Hass 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
If you ever want to understand multitasking in prose, James Joyce is your man. — Frank Delaney Copy Share Image
Translated literature can be fascinating. There's something so intriguing about reading the text second hand - a piece of prose that has… — Katie Kitamura Copy Share Image
I always say that a poet loves the world, and the prose writer needs to create an alternative world. — Mary Karr Copy Share Image
I am interested in the confines of the page and busting through/off the page as well. A writer must let go of… — Denise Duhamel Copy Share Image
If heaven is tolerant and writers are allowed (bunch of liars though they are), I wonder if they gather for coffee to… — Lori Lansens Copy Share Image
I've learned about marrying poetry and prose and making both accessible. — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
I'm kind of a creature of the alt-weekly universe - my real education into higher culture was acquired in coffee shops, reading… — Charles D'Ambrosio Copy Share Image
A work of fiction should be, for its author, a journey into the unknown, and the prose should convey the difficulties of… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
I guess I find the boundaries between poetry and prose to be somewhat permeable. — Kevin Powers Copy Share Image
The short story feels like the most natural length for prose fiction, or certainly for the kind of ideas and situations I… — Nicholas Royle Copy Share Image
Heather A. Slomski's stories are downright addictive. I kept promising myself to turn off the light after just one more, and then… — Sarah Shun-lien Bynum Copy Share Image
“Marriage is a book in which the first chapter is written in poetry and the remaining chapters in prose.” — Beverley Nichols Copy Share Image
“There, arrows are thrown slowly — but they hurt. The first arrow comes from a one-sided decision — as though only one… — Tommy Wibowo Copy Share Image
“Feelings that would not have disgraced a leader who, now that the snow has begun to fall and the mountain-top is covered… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
