Because I write a book a year, I always want to do one other project every year that's stimulating in a different… — Denise Mina Copy Share Image
“You yearn to stay in this in-between place, where the beauty of the times you have freshly bade farewell to is still… — Agnes Chew Copy Share Image
Despots play their part in the works of thinkers. Fettered words are terrible words. The writer doubles and trebles the power of… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
The flesh of prose gets its shape and strength from the bones of grammar. — Constance Hale Copy Share Image
Writing a play, you have to retain it all in your head - you need more time. With prose, you can snatch… — Nell Leyshon Copy Share Image
My friends tell me that I am an intruder, that I don't really write when I attempt poetry. But those of my… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
ONE BLOOD is a richly detailed, intricately woven tale rendered in lush, evocative prose. This memorable debut heralds Qwantu Amaru as a… — Brandon Massey Copy Share Image
Don't scatter your fire! You are a prose writer: stick to your own tool! — Sarah Orne Jewett Copy Share Image
There's a half-conscious state you enter when you're actually generating prose, and you are simply a better writer in that place. In… — John Jeremiah Sullivan Copy Share Image
I rarely use the internet for research, as I find the process cumbersome and detestable. The information gained is often untrustworthy and… — Annie Proulx Copy Share Image
Prose-it might be speculated-is discourse; poetry ellipsis. Prose is spoken aloud; poetry overheard. The one is presumably articulate and social, a shared… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
Donald Westlake's lean prose and deadpan delivery are engaging, as always. — Katherine Dunn Copy Share Image
If you know that everything comes from the mind, don't become attached. Once attached, you're unaware. But once you see your own… — Bodhidharma Copy Share Image
I do love the prose poem because it's such a perverse and provocative little box - always asking to be questioned, never… — Matthea Harvey Copy Share Image
And what holds good of verse holds infinitely better in respect to prose. — James Payn Copy Share Image
Root out all the "to be" verbs in your prose and bludgeon them until dead. No "It was" or "they are" or… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Three words that still have meaning, that I think we can apply to all professional writing, are discovery, originality, invention.The professional writer… — John Dos Passos Copy Share Image
For a long time, I saw writing prose as chewing rocks compared to the velocities of writing poetry. — David Biespiel Copy Share Image
“He tried to measure his day by tallying the hours on his wrist. I wiped it off and called him a prisoner.… — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
the more humdrum aspects of life do not make for gripping reading. To render them compelling, a writer must describe the universal… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
Harmony of period and melody of style have greater weight than is generally imagined in the judgment we pass upon writing and… — William Shenstone Copy Share Image
