We all often feel like we are pulling teeth, even those writers whose prose ends up being the most natural and fluid.… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
The language of prose is very different than the language of cinema, so the movie has to successfully translate what was in… — Yann Martel 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
Voice is the je ne sais quoi of spirited writing. It separates brochures and brilliance, memo and memoir, a ship's log and… — Constance Hale Copy Share Image
I was influenced by autobiographical writers like Henry Miller, and I had actually done some autobiographical prose. But I just thought that… — Harvey Pekar 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
In painting as in prose, a good eye is not enough to tell you whether what you see is real or fake. — David Bellos Copy Share Image
“I wouldn't give ten gallons of my own piss for clear sentence that gives the sense of a tree as a tree,… — David Joseph Cribbin Copy Share Image
A prose that is altogether alive demands something of the reader that the ordinary novel reader is not prepared to give. — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
“Most important thing in life is family, Without them you are nothing. Whatever you do will be worth nothing, If there is… — Akash Lakhotia Copy Share Image
In an idealized world, we would all be able to do what our English teachers told us to do, which is to… — Will Schwalbe Copy Share Image
I read a lot of F. Scott Fitzgerald. I love 'Tender is the Night,' and its atmosphere of doomed romance. He was… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
Poetry is supposed to be musical. But people don't understand prose. They're so used to reading journalism - clunky, functional sentences that… — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
It seems to me that this is the true test for poetry: - that it should go beneath experience, as prose can… — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
He was a physicist, more precisely an astrophysicist, diligent and eager but without illusions: the Truth lay beyond, inaccessible to our telescopes,… — Primo Levi Copy Share Image
I believe he loved a lot of things about me, yet was afraid to accept. He said he never ended it because… — Dominic Riccitello Copy Share Image
Next to the writer of real estate advertisements, the autobiographer is the most suspect of prose artists. — Donal Henahan Copy Share Image
And of all glad words of prose or rhyme, The gladdest are Act while there yet is time — Franklin P. Adams Copy Share Image
I've seen a lot of patriots and they all died just like anybody else if it hurt bad enough and once they… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
There was no really good true war book during the entire four years of the war. The only true writing that came… — Ernest Hemingway 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
“Feelings and emotion ran through my veins like a hurricane. And that's when everything began to look like poetry. —You look like… — Altruistic Copy Share Image
If the British prose style is Churchillian, America is the tobacco auctioneer, the barker; Runyon, Lardner, W.W., the traveling salesman who can… — Ishmael Reed Copy Share Image
