I am not a great prose stylist. I'm a storyteller. There are thousands of people who don't like what I do. Fortunately,… — James Patterson Copy Share Image
Most writers sow adjectives almost unconsciously into the soil of their prose to make it more lush and pretty. The sentences become… — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
When interviewing for a job, tell the editor how you love to report. How your passion is gathering information. Do not mention… — Michael Hastings Copy Share Image
When I start writing a poem, I can usually know quite early on whether it's a lineated or prose poem, but I… — Matthea Harvey Copy Share Image
The question now becomes about defining your terms. What is literature? Unless we allow it to encompass the oral tradition from which… — David Bennun Copy Share Image
to look back on one's life is to experience the capriciousness of memory. ... the past is not static. It can be… — P. D. James Copy Share Image
I find in my poetry and prose the rhythms and imagery of the best - I mean, when I'm at my best… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
It all depends on what I'm working on and if there is a deadline involved. Anything that's headed toward a magazine or… — Kevin Keck Copy Share Image
Prose pretends to be straightforward in its application to the truth, but truth itself is a dissembler. Poetry, much more honest, knows… — Laurence Overmire Copy Share Image
“Decades from now, my grandchild is going to be a poet... And she's going to write about how she's a living testament… — Danabelle Gutierrez Copy Share Image
Good Heavens! For more than forty years I have been speaking prose without knowing it. — Moliere Copy Share Image
I always like to break out and address the audience. In 'The History Boys', for instance, without any ado, the boys will… — Alan Bennett Copy Share Image
Those who talk of the bible as a monument of English prose are merely admiring it as a monument over the grave… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
Writing anything is terribly hard but, alas for me, because I am addicted, a heck of a lot of fun. I often… — Judy Collins Copy Share Image
There is a strong tendency in explanatory prose to invoke quantities of tension, energy, and whatnot to explain the genesis of pattern.… — Gregory Bateson Copy Share Image
My whole life has been a twenty years struggle between poetry and prose, or, if you like to call it so, Music… — Robert Schumann Copy Share Image
I've always believed that poetry must speak of realities as least as complicated as those spoken of in prose. I've read books… — Lawrence Joseph Copy Share Image
“Niko? I have decided to christen this little pool Le Cagot's Soul." "Oh?" "Yes. Because it is clear and pure and lucid."… — Trevanian Copy Share Image
Narrative prose is a legal wife, while drama is a posturing, boisterous, cheeky and wearisome mistress. — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
An appreciation of prose is learned, not instinctive. It is an acquired taste, like Scotch whisky. — Abigail Padgett Copy Share Image
“He left that morning, the last words still echoing in my head, and though he said he’d come back one day I… — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share Image
The strange, wonderful stories of Doctor Olaf van Schuler's Brain introduce us to the tremendously gifted Kirsten Menger-Anderson, a writer whose subject… — Ben Fountain Copy Share Image
“Later, you told me what your mother had said. How your father, the farmer, rose up slowly. You told me how your… — Jon Gresham 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
