Prose Quotes · Page 20

“Tell all the truth but tell it slant.”

— Emily Dickinson

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

— Catherine Asaro

I would say that the writers I like and trust have at the base of their prose something called the English sentence.…

— Martin Amis

Most of my writing consists of an attempt to translate aphorisms into continuous prose.

— Northrop Frye

“This town of churches and dreams; this town I thought I would lose myself in, with its backward ways and winding roads…

— Kellie Elmore

My publisher had mailed [Bret Easton Ellis] Richard Yates. And when I talked to him he said he had read all my…

— Tao Lin

When I was in college I started writing prose, because a very smart professor asked me what I like to read and…

— Melissa Febos

Whether I'm writing scripts or prose, the goal is identical. To give pleasure. Now whether I succeed or not is up for…

— Jonathan Ames

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

— Edgar Allan Poe

She's always looking for poetry and passion and sensitivity, the whole Romantic kitchen. I live on a rather simpler diet.' 'Prose and…

— John Fowles

“I seek the city because there is nothing sweeter than not being alone in your loneliness.”

— Charlotte Eriksson

I say that glorious prose is a fine and laudable thing, but without an enthralling story, it's just so much verbal tapioca.…

— Jean Hanff Korelitz

I've already written 300 space poems. But I look upon my ultimate form as being a poetic prose. When you read it,…

— Story Musgrave

I love the necessary ambiguity of short stories - there simply isn't time to render every detail, so much of the story…

— Matthew Healy

The way we speak is very different from the way we write - especially from the way we write continuous prose.

— Michael Rosen

“The boy raised the can to his nose and smelled, his lips wrinkling back as if he'd caught the business end of…

— R.J. Lawrence

It's funny, because in deference to conventional wisdom, I spent my struggling writer years trying to suppress my naturally baroque literary voice…

— Jacqueline Carey

Full of fun, over-the-top characters and witty prose, with a touch of gay romance that is equally pleasing to straight readers. The…

— Rhys Bowen

When I write after dark the shades of evening scatter their purple through my prose.

— Cyril Connolly

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

— Emily Dickinson

I started out as a writer. Poetry and prose and also kind of satirical David Sedaris-esque stuff.

— Pauley Perrette

I'm a line-maker. I think that's what makes poets different from prose-writers. That's the main way. We think, not just in sentences…

— Billy Collins

I like to move around in the landscape between poetry and prose, between the lyrical and the narrative.

— Rigoberto Gonzalez

“Chains chains that hold me to the ground chains that keep me solidly bound chains that tether my heart to you chains…

— Muse

I never wrote poetry, just prose. I don't really consider songwriting a form of poetry either. The words are important, of course,…

— Michael Gira