There are lots of guys out there who write a better prose line than I do and who have a better understanding… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Nor all that heralds rake from coffin'd clay, Nor florid prose, nor honied lies of rhyme, Can blazon evil deeds, or consecrate… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
Inexperienced fiction and creative nonfiction writers are often told to show, not tell - to write scenes, dramatize, cut exposition, cut summary… — Laurie Alberts Copy Share Image
I can't be expected to produce deathless prose in an atmosphere of gloom and eucalyptus. — Gerald Durrell Copy Share Image
I don't feel like I have the intelligence to really inhabit a consistently high level of prose. — George Saunders Copy Share Image
“I am constantly torn between the will to be seen and still hidden so god damn well, a contradiction I never figured… — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share Image
I believe so deeply in the primacy of language, in lifting your prose to the highest level you're capable of and making… — Dennis Lehane Copy Share Image
“Within her simple, terrified mind, swift calculations of distance and speed were at work, and her face advertised the disappointing results.” — R.J. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Poetry, I thought then, and still do, is a matter of space on the page interrupted by a few well-chosen words, to… — Fay Weldon Copy Share Image
“Some can't handle the fiery poet, how she rips into souls burning words into prose.” — Melody Lee Copy Share Image
My preference is for prose with more silence in it, language that contains more pockets of strangeness. — Anthony Doerr Copy Share Image
“Don’t try to present your art by making other people read or hear or see or touch it; make them feel it.… — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share Image
Prose poetry is not set to a melody or music so there's something freeing about it. — William Beckett Copy Share Image
In the camp, this meant committing my verse-many thousands of lines-to memory. To help me with this I improvised decimal counting beads… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
EPIGRAM, n. A short, sharp saying in prose or verse, frequently characterize by acidity or acerbity and sometimes by wisdom. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Only connect the prose and the passion, and both will be exalted, and human love will be seen at its highest. Live… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
'At the Gates of the Animal Kingdom' by Amy Hempel showed me the lean quality of prose. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
At the emergence of the modern novel with Rabelais and Cervantes, all kinds of things were possible in a long-form prose work.… — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
History meets romance meets suspense! Compelling, original and wildly romantic, Beatriz Williams’ prose is stunning and the plot edge-of-your-seat gripping. OVERSEAS is… — Tilly Bagshawe Copy Share Image
When I put together a graphic novel, I don't think about literary prose. I think about storytelling. — Ted Rall Copy Share Image
“Every year, Grandma Dickerson, my mom’s mother, made all the traditional sweets for Christmas time, but she made something not exactly “Christmasy”… — Larada Horner-Miller Copy Share Image
Jack Kerouac did what he most wanted to do. He wrote great prose. He became the writer he wanted to be. — Joyce Johnson Copy Share Image
I don't write out of fear. I write out of a strong urge to meet death on its own eternal terms, because… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
I do love writing prose interspersed with the poetry of other people. Their rhythms break into my prose and create a connection. — Pattiann Rogers Copy Share Image
