I have to say from the outset that not all prose can be transferred to the screen. — Andrei Tarkovsky Copy Share Image
“I was no longer able to hear the music that issues from a decent piece of prose.” — Carlos Ruiz Zafón Copy Share Image
The Postmodernists' tyranny wears people down by boredom and semi-literate prose. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
One of the most important differences I see between prose and poetry is the music of the language. — Pattiann Rogers Copy Share Image
“why be bothered with other people's set-ups? it only leads to torture.” — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
Marriagea book of which the first chapter is written in poetry and the remaining chapters written in prose. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I've always liked police-blotter kind of writing, or the writing of a policeman, right to the point and hardboiled. That's how I… — Jonathan Ames Copy Share Image
When you have an idea for a story, you want those characters to reach as many people as you can. I think… — Robert Morgan Copy Share Image
The young student sits with his head bent over his books, and his mind straying in youth's dreamland; where prose is prowling… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
When you finish a poem, it clicks shut like the top of a jewel box, but prose is endless. I haven't experienced… — Kenneth Koch Copy Share Image
when a poem says something that could not have been said in any other way, in music, prose, sculpture, movement or paint,… — Sybil Marshall Copy Share Image
Sleeping in Eden is intense and absorbing from the very first page. Written in lovely prose, two seemingly different storylines collide in… — Heather Gudenkauf Copy Share Image
What is important-what lasts-in another language is not what is said but what is written. For the essence of an age, we… — Peter Brodie Copy Share Image
Music, when combined with a pleasurable idea, is poetry; music, without the idea, is simply music; the idea, without the music, is… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
OF writing many books there is no end; And I who have written much in prose and verse For others' uses, will… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning 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
I've been working on a collection of prose vignettes about girls I've had crushes on, from the age of six to the… — Ron Padgett Copy Share Image
In almost every book I've written, there is a reference to a movie - legendary films, actors and actresses, and forgotten made-for-TV… — Denise Duhamel Copy Share Image
Each time I undertake to reread Virginia Woolf, I am somewhat baffled by the signature breathlessness and relentlessly "poetic" tone, the shimmering… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
“To Scottie July 18, 1940 p.454 The prose talent depends on other factors- assimilation of material and careful selection of it, or… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“...prose unfolds in time; and time contains both obstacles and revelations. Prose develops, the way characters and situations do. It requires a… — Molly Peacock Copy Share Image
Most writers sow adjectives almost unconsciously into the soil of their prose to make it more lush and pretty. The sentences become… — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
“Scott could feel the contents of his stomach flip over and over on themselves. He turned to the side and retched, frothy… — R.D. Ronald Copy Share Image
I'm kind of a creature of the alt-weekly universe - my real education into higher culture was acquired in coffee shops, reading… — Charles D'Ambrosio 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
The difference between prose logic and poetic thought is simple. The logician uses words as a builder uses bricks, for the unemotional… — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
“ The Prodigal Son They gave the deep end of their heart--a hue of crimson red, They whispered their desire and offered… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
I assure you, my children, that when a Christian carries out with love the most insignificant everyday action, that action overflows with… — Josemaria Escriva Copy Share Image
“Am I making something worth while? I’m not sure. I write and I sing and I hear words from time to time… — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share Image
Of all the art forms, poetry is the most economical. It is the one which is the most secret, which requires the… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
