I like a great degree of compression. I like to mix lateral steps with forward ones. I don't want the prose ever… — Michael Helm Copy Share Image
History meets romance meets suspense! Compelling, original and wildly romantic, Beatriz Williams’ prose is stunning and the plot edge-of-your-seat gripping. OVERSEAS is… — Tilly Bagshawe Copy Share Image
In the television age, the key distinction is between the candidate who can speak poetry and the one who can only speak… — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
Polishing: a useful lesson for the hopeful writer. You say your tormented prose doesn't read as well as mine? Neither does mine,… — Piers Anthony Copy Share Image
The Italian prose tale had begun to exercise that influence as early as Chaucer's time: but circumstances and atmosphere were as yet… — George Saintsbury Copy Share Image
Money, which represents the prose of life, and which is hardly spoken of in parlors without an apology, is, in its effects… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Without play at many levels of language, from phonemes to logical structures, a poem is merely prose with linebreaks added.” — Helen Vendler Copy Share Image
What I'm constantly striving for in my prose is clarity. So that, ideally, the writing will become so transparent that the reader… — Jonathan Lethem 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
Everything in art depends on execution: the story of a louse can be as beautiful as the story of Alexander. You must… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
Writing for the page is only one form of writing for the eye. Wherever solemn inscriptions are put up in public places,… — James Fenton Copy Share Image
I think the most reliable way to teach it is through reading work aloud over and over. Many prose writers been encouraged… — Paul Lisicky Copy Share Image
There are some simple maxims which I think might be commended to writers of expository prose. First: never use a long word… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I'm always looking for poetry's place in the prose. For that moment, let's say, that arrests time, or that sentence in which… — Jack Driscoll Copy Share Image
Prose of the World is an enormously compelling and vivid study. The result is an ambitious, timely, and eloquent account of the… — Rebecca L. Walkowitz Copy Share Image
Poets seem to write more easily about love than prose writers. For a start, they own that flexible ‘I’…. Then again, poets… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
If there's anything I'm keen to get better at in my writing, then it's the writing of prose as opposed to the… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
Prose exists to convey meaning, and no meaning such as prose conveys can be expressed as well in poetry. That's not poetry's… — Basil Bunting Copy Share Image
The thing about Dickens is you either love him or you hate him and I fell in love with Dickens, I fell… — George Brandis 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
Gertrude Stein's prose-song is a cold, black suet-pudding… Cut it at any point, it is the same thing ... all fat, without nerve. — Wyndham Lewis 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
I like bringing poetry's focus on figurative language and compression into the essay. Of course, the musical properties of language, the cadence… — Alison Hawthorne Deming 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 gripped against her like she was metal and I was all full of lightning, charged up and jagged and of that… — Chris Howard Copy Share Image
To be natural is revolutionary. Tha's why I'm thrilled to work with Prose, a company that celebrates all unique personalities, hair types… — Lauren Ridloff Copy Share Image
A short story is "a short prose narrative, requiring from a half hour, to one or two hours in its perusal...having conceived,… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
He can develop sense and style, in the manner of distinguished modern prose, in which event he may be sure that the… — John Crowe Ransom Copy Share Image
Mr Witwould: "Pray, madam, do you pin up your hair with all your letters? I find I must keep copies." Mrs Millamant:… — William Congreve Copy Share Image
I'm a failed poet. Reading poetry helps me to see the world differently, and I try to infuse my prose with figurative… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
George Moore unexpectedly pinched my behind. I felt rather honored that my behind should have drawn the attention of the great master… — Ilka Chase Copy Share Image
Poetry is more than a form of art. It's a vibration and a pulsing heart. Whether it's sour or whether it's sweet.… — Stanley Victor Paskavich 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
Susan Campbell has brought Isabella's fascinating forgotten story back to life with the deep research of a born historian and the vibrant… — Debby Applegate Copy Share Image
“The city they are building asks you to stay; remind yourself what is worth keeping, while the lighthouse of your moan warns… — Mikl Paul Copy Share Image
If you were going to make sculptures of them, the swivel poems would be disparate objects all attached with hinges and the… — Matthea Harvey Copy Share Image
Most clear writing is a sign that there is no exploration going on. Clear prose indicates the absence of thought. — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
I wanted to be a writer. I still want to be a prose writer. I feel I am more temperamentally suited to… — Juliana Hatfield 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
“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
