On May 15, 1957 Linus Pauling made an extraordinary speech to the students of Washington University. ... It was at this time… — Edward Condon Copy Share Image
“The displacement of water is equal to the something of something.” — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
There is a certain standard of grace and beauty which consists in a certain relation between our nature, such as it is,… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
In some sense, prose fiction is just a way of unlocking a space. If I can unlock the space, it comes out… — Ben Marcus Copy Share Image
You have to be a ruthless editor of your own prose. Over the years, I've learned that the best way to incorporate… — Sara Paretsky Copy Share Image
“It's too short,' she said, 'ever so much too short.' Never did anybody look so sad. Bitter and black, half-way down, in… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
I now wish that I had spent somewhat more of my life with verse. This is not because I fear having missed… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think my prose reads as if English were my second language. By the time I get to the end of a… — Lynn Abbey Copy Share Image
“If you must write prose or poems, the words you use should be your own. Don't plagiarize or take 'on loan'. There's… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Gene Wolfe is the greatest writer in the English language alive today. Let me repeat that: Gene Wolfe is the greatest writer… — Michael Swanwick Copy Share Image
My first book was poetry, but I didn't write it first. I wrote it third. So my first two books were prose. — Tao Lin Copy Share Image
My object when writing prose is to write as clearly as possible. I think I know what I'm saying in prose, and… — Pattiann Rogers Copy Share Image
In prose fiction the freedom to work honestly exists, although you may have to fight for it. In those other areas of… — James Kelman Copy Share Image
What judgment I had increases rather than diminishes; and thoughts, such as they are, come crowding in so fast upon me, that… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
The language of the age is never the language of poetry, except among the French, whose verse, where the thought or image… — Thomas Gray Copy Share Image
“Yet you stand, too ashamed to run, too fearful to embrace. God I see so much of what I love in that… — Suenammi Richards Copy Share Image
I have always felt that the truth is prophetic, and that if you describe precisely what you see and give it life… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
As if channeling Robbe-Grillet, who strove to establish 'new relations between man and the world,' Sesshu Foster's electrifying prose poems tenderly examine… — Wanda Coleman Copy Share Image
He who writes prose builds his temple to Fame in rubble; he who writes verses builds it in granite. - Edward George… — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
Like Molière's M. Jourdain, who spoke prose all his life without knowing it, mathematicians have been reasoning for at least two millennia… — Ernest Nagel Copy Share Image
A lot of times you get people writing wonderful sentences and paragraphs, and they fall in love with their prose style, but… — James Patterson Copy Share Image
“Raz was one of those vanguard human beings of indeterminate ethnicity, the magnificent mutts that I hope we are all destined to… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
I don't use the word lightly, in fact, I don't use it at all, but Ben Marcus is a genius, one of… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
I have a much greater ambition to be the best racket player than the best prose writer. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
