A great actor is independent of the poet, because the supreme essence of feeling does not reside in prose or in verse,… — Lee Strasberg Copy Share Image
I love to read long books. I enjoy experiencing that extension. But it's not something I feel comfortable with and not something… — Shane McCrae Copy Share Image
But every great scripture, whether Hebrew, Indian, Persian, or Chinese, apart from its religious value will be found to have some rare… — Lafcadio Hearn Copy Share Image
“What is above all needed is to let the meaning choose the word, and not the other way around. In prose, the… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
We must never underestimate our power to be wrong when talking about God, when thinking about God, when imagining God, whether in… — Brian D. McLaren Copy Share Image
“The characters in my novels are my own unrealized possibilities. that is why I am equally fond of them all and equally… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
Self-publishing in comics is core to the whole artform. There is no scarlet letter in comics as there still is, to some… — Kieron Gillen Copy Share Image
Fischer was a good kid but very unsophisticated about anything but chess. It was all chess for him, every waking moment. We'd… — Ronald Gross Copy Share Image
Sociological prose is generally written without images in an exact form for an academic audience. — Robert Bly Copy Share Image
“I don’t need anyone else to distract me from myself anymore, like I always thought I would.” — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share Image
What did Nabokov and Joyce have in common, apart from the poor teeth and the great prose? Exile, and decades of near… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
I should like, if I could, to leave a humble gift -- a bit of chaste prose that had caught up some… — Max Ehrmann Copy Share Image
If you want to tell the untold stories, if you want to give voice to the voiceless, you've got to find a… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Not to make him blush, but any story illustrated by Mike Mignola does things that prose alone can't accomplish. The illustrations create… — Christopher Golden Copy Share Image
It is no longer possible for lyric poetry to express the immensity of our experience. Life has grown too cumbersome, too complicated.… — Boris Pasternak Copy Share Image
I do write a lot of prose. It's not disciplined enough yet that it's actually become stories, or short stories. The idea… — PJ Harvey 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
There is no form of prose more difficult to understand and more tedious to read than the average scientific paper. — Francis Crick Copy Share Image
“Watch me go. Watch me. Because you said i couldn't. Because you thought I wouldn't. Go on, cry now. Cry.” — Kellie Elmore Copy Share Image
“What a face this girl possessed!—could I not gaze at it every day I would need to recreate it through painting, sculpture,… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
There were aspects of stardom I didn't like, which were of no consequence, really, but the positive things far outweighed the negative.… — Paul Weller Copy Share Image
Poetry seems to sink into us the way prose doesn't. I can still quote verses I learned when I was very young,… — Jack Prelutsky Copy Share Image
Demanding historical (or scientific) veracity as a prerequisite for truth is another kind of tunnel vision. To do so is to mistake… — Charles Kimball Copy Share Image
