“What a face this girl possessed!—could I not gaze at it every day I would need to recreate it through painting, sculpture,… — Roman Payne 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
“I just wish you could see my demons for what they are, and lay here beside me on the floor. No words.… — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share Image
With prose you can incorporate more details, develop scenes, sustain the tension in a special way. Prose has its own speed. — Robert Morgan Copy Share Image
My focus will always be crime, but it might not always be fiction, nor always for adults, nor books entirely in prose.… — Sarah Weinman Copy Share Image
“Chains chains that hold me to the ground chains that keep me solidly bound chains that tether my heart to you chains… — Muse Copy Share Image
Exercises are like prose, whereas yoga is the poetry of movements. Once you understand the grammar of yoga; you can write your… — Amit Ray Copy Share Image
I believe so deeply in the primacy of language, in lifting your prose to the highest level you're capable of and making… — Dennis Lehane Copy Share Image
Without touching my subject I want to come to the moment when, through pure concentration of seeing, the composed picture becomes more… — Ernst Haas Copy Share Image
You’re trying to take something that can be described in many, many sentences and pages of prose, but you can convert it… — Satya Nadella Copy Share Image
By the time I was doing "Kill Bill," it was so much filled with prose that, you know, I start seeing why… — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share Image
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
“If a writer of prose knows enough about what he is writing about, he may omit things that he knows and the… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“So you will meet many ’someones’ who will give a new definition to your name. And you can not build walls, must… — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share Image
The richly cadenced prose is hypnotic, the research prodigious, the analysis acute, the mood spellbinding, and the cast of characters mythic in… — Ron Chernow Copy Share Image
There must be a connection between the lust for power and impotentia coeundi. I liked Marx, I was sure that he and… — Umberto Eco 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
Every poet, be his outward lot what it may, finds himself born in the midst of prose; h e has to struggle… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
A prose writer never sees a reader walk out of a book; for a playwright, it's another matter. An audience is an… — John Lahr Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
'Words and Music' on Radio 3 is always a treat. Actors read passages of poetry and prose interspersed with music, and nobody… — Claire Tomalin Copy Share Image
It wasn't by accident that the Gettysburg address was so short. The laws of prose writing are as immutable as those of… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
I think Lindsay Kemp really introduced me to the work of Jean Genet, and through that, I kind of kept re-educating myself… — David Bowie Copy Share Image
The combination of drugs, homosexuality, some good prose recited on screen. . . . In the sweat lodge ceremony we went through,… — Allen Ginsberg 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
A poet or prose narrator usually looks back on what he has achieved against a backdrop of the years that have passed,… — Eyvind Johnson Copy Share Image
Sometimes one has the feeling of an almost supernatural character to the shifts and changes in our national mood. They appear beyond… — Elizabeth Hardwick Copy Share Image
“It...whatever 'it' is, has swallowed me and I lie here in the pit of its cold dark stomach being eaten alive by… — Kellie Elmore Copy Share Image
That prose is a verse, and verse is a prose; convincing all, by demonstrating plain – poetic souls delight in prose insane — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
Because I write prose, when I sat down to write a comic, it feels like my brain's working differently. It actually feels… — Denise Mina Copy Share Image
There is no form of prose more difficult to understand and more tedious to read than the average scientific paper. — Francis Crick Copy Share Image
Allowing artist-illustrators to control the design and content of statistical graphics is almost like allowing typographers to control the content, style, and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Rain woke him, a slow drizzle, his feet tangled in coils of discarded fiberoptics. The arcade's sea of sound washed over him,… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
The poet, whether in prose or verse, the creator, can only stamp his images forcibly on the page, in proportion, as he… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To read a poem with no thought in mind but to paraphrase it into a single, simple and usually high-minded prose statement… — John Ciardi Copy Share Image
Prose may carry a load of ill-defined matters like a ship. But poetry is the machine which drives it, pruned to a… — William Carlos Williams Copy Share Image
What did Nabokov and Joyce have in common, apart from the poor teeth and the great prose? Exile, and decades of near… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
The old prose writers wrote as if they were speaking to an audience; while, among us, prose is invariably written for the… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
I do write a lot of prose. It's not disciplined enough yet that it's actually become stories, or short stories. The idea… — PJ Harvey Copy Share Image
“The characters in my novels are my own unrealized possibilities. that is why I am equally fond of them all and equally… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
