The unit of the poet is the word, the unit of the prose writer is the sentence. — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Prose is not necessarily good because it obeys the rules of syntax, but it is fairly certain to be bad if it… — Wilson Follett Copy Share Image
“You alone in Europe are not ancient oh Christianity The most modern European is you Pope Pius X And you whom the… — Guillaume Apollinaire Copy Share Image
When I first wanted to be a writer, I learned to write prose by reading poetry. — Nicholson Baker Copy Share Image
Speech and prose are not the same thing. They have different wave-lengths, for speech moves at the speed of light, where prose… — James Kenneth Stephen Copy Share Image
Nobody reads anymore in America. Reading has become the least effective delivery system for narrative. That's sad because prose is the means… — David Simon Copy Share Image
“When the others were picked up and walked home by friends or fathers or best friend’s sisters, I was the kid in… — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share Image
Steve Forman strafes the south Florida scene with Boca Knights, an outrageously funny mystery novel with a raft of offbeat characters and… — Douglas Preston Copy Share Image
Nicole Baart has written a novel that satisfies on every level. Sleeping In Eden is a compelling mystery, a tragic love story,… — William Kent Krueger Copy Share Image
[John Adams's] vividly descriptive prose is supremely quotable. Adams wears his heart on his sleeve and reveals all of his ambitions, doubts,… — Gordon S. Wood Copy Share Image
There IS a difference between poetry and prose! Poems should be sonically charged and new to the ear. — Cate Marvin Copy Share Image
Eva Stachniak has given readers a thrilling glimpse into the scandals and secrets at the heart of the Russian Imperial court. With… — Deanna Raybourn Copy Share Image
In my later years I have sought to become simpler, straighter and purer in my handling of the language. I've had many… — Red Smith Copy Share Image
Nima Shirazi's is an important progressive voice in the Iran debate in the West, often deconstructing the myths (and sometimes propaganda) we… — Hooman Majd Copy Share Image
The way something looks or sounds is also what it means. Words as visual and aural phenomena, which mainly poets, not critics… — Masha Tupitsyn Copy Share Image
Atticus Lish is a true original and this is a tremendous book, relentless, moving, written in prose of marvelous integrity. Now that… — Sam Lipsyte Copy Share Image
When I was in law school I was taught that the great writers were people like [Oliver Wendell] Holmes Jr. and [Benjamin… — Jeffrey Rosen Copy Share Image
There [DreamTigers by Jorge Luis Borges] were these little fablesque things, you know, dream tigers, beautiful, beautiful pieces that when you read… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
“Well, at least this is what I told myself every day as I fell asleep with the fire still burning and the… — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share Image
The Last Of England works with image and sound, a language which is nearer to poetry than prose. It tells its story… — Derek Jarman Copy Share Image
“I am a free soul, singing my heart out by myself no matter where I go and I call strangers my friends… — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share Image
The lines of poetry, the period of prose, and even the texts of Scripture most frequently recollected and quoted, are those which… — William Shenstone 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
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