“I want to be the one you run to. I want to be the one you miss. I want your arms to… — Rachel Nicole Wagner Copy Share Image
Thomas Ligotti is an absolute master of supernatural horror and weird fiction, and a true original. He pursues his unique vision with… — Ramsey Campbell Copy Share Image
If you were going to make sculptures of them, the swivel poems would be disparate objects all attached with hinges and the… — Matthea Harvey Copy Share Image
A garden should make you feel you've entered privileged space -- a place not just set apart but reverberant -- and it… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
Of little use, the man you may suppose, Who says in verse what others say in prose; Yet let me show a… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
The words in prose ought to express the intended meaning, and no more; if they attract attention to themselves, it is, in… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
There was one person who greatly and directly benefited my career--my agent Virginia Kidd. From 1968 to the late nineties she represented… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Much modern prose is praised for its terseness, its scrupulous avoidance of curlicue, etcetera. But I don't feel the deeper rhythm there.… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
Poetry is creative expression; Prose is constructive expression... by creative I mean original. In Poetry the words are born or reborn in… — Herbert Read Copy Share Image
We speak of memorizing as getting something 'by heart,' which really means 'by head.' But getting a poem or prose passage truly… — John Hollander Copy Share Image
The 250-page outline for American Tabloid. The books are so dense. They're so complex, you cannot write like I write off the… — James Ellroy Copy Share Image
The only valid reason to use clichés is in the speech of a character. Cliches are indications of sloppy writing. The writer… — Leonard Bishop Copy Share Image
The Da Vinci Code may well be the only novel ever written that begins with the word 'renowned'... I think what enabled… — Geoffrey K. Pullum Copy Share Image
My prose style at this time was a stomach-twisting blend of the Bible, Carl Sandburg, H.L. Mencken, Jeffrey Farnol, Christopher Morley, Samuel… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
Juliet!' I whip around but not quickly enough. She's swallowed by the crowd, the gap that allowed her to break for the… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
“It could be yesterday when I was less in love I think For I didn’t see you in the mirror behind me… — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share Image
Stylized acting and direction is to realistic acting and direction as poetry is to prose. — Elia Kazan Copy Share Image
If prose can cast a spell, we will listen to it no matter what it's saying. If a narrative uses language in… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
Art, whatever form it takes, requires hard work, craftsmanship and creativity. As a writer, I know my grammar, cadence, the music of… — F. Sionil Jose Copy Share Image
We old bachelors smell like dogs, do we? So be it. But I must take issue with your claim that doctors who… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
I write a book at least three times-once to understand it, the second time to improve the prose, and a third to… — Bernard Malamud Copy Share Image
Everything in creation has its appointed painter or poet and remains in bondage like the princess in the fairy tale 'til its… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“So you will meet many ’someones’ who will give a new definition to your name. And you can not build walls, must… — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share Image
How deep is the magic of sound may be learned by breaking some sweet verses into prose. The operation has been compared… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
