Susan Campbell has brought Isabella's fascinating forgotten story back to life with the deep research of a born historian and the vibrant… — Debby Applegate Copy Share Image
The decision to write in prose instead of poetry is made more by the readers than by writers. Almost no one is… — Robert Morgan Copy Share Image
If it doesn't work horizontally as prose... it probably won't work any better vertically pretending to be poetry. — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
If there's anything I'm keen to get better at in my writing, then it's the writing of prose as opposed to the… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
My method is the magpie's: I look for shiny things. That is, I look for concrete material details of daily life, and… — Luc Sante Copy Share Image
If you like the precision and concision of poetry, a page of prose is unsatisfying in a certain way. And poetry is… — Helen Vendler Copy Share Image
I fantasised about F. Scott Fitzgerald's 'The Great Gatsby' - I loved it, and then I read everything J. D. Salinger had… — Garrett Hedlund 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
The human brain can soften as a result of incessant listening to music with an intent to commit prose. — Donal Henahan Copy Share Image
I was always creatively stubborn, adverse to editing by others, and wanted to use the kind of Ukrainian we spoke among ourselves… — Yuriy Tarnawsky 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
In the big picture I write for an audience of people I've never met. By the final draft I'm looking for anything… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
The language of politics is poetry, not prose. Jackson is poetry. Cuomo is poetry. Dukakis is a word processor. — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
Autobiographical writings, essays, interviews, various other things... All the non-fiction prose I wanted to keep, that was the idea behind this collected… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
It was an instinct to put the world in order that powered her mending split infinitives and snipping off dangling participles, smoothing… — David Leavitt Copy Share Image
Sentences are not different enough to hold the attention unless they are dramatic. No ingenuity of varying structure will do. All that… — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
Prose is like this big block - you write big paragraphs. I feel that when I'm reading and writing, that a prose… — Bill Callahan Copy Share Image
I might have some sort of personality disorder. I might not have proper filters; it might be some kind of version of… — Jonathan Ames Copy Share Image
I don't run away from the idea of philosophy as seductive. I want the sentences to be prose but intense prose, to… — Stanley Cavell Copy Share Image
I'd rather call prose poems something else, for clarity - something like "poetic prose," prose that contains a quality of poetry, but… — Pattiann Rogers Copy Share Image
“It could have been so beautiful. The way I learned and got free and swore to never love another person ever again… — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share Image
Even in a crowded field, it is a rare pleasure to come across a prose stylist like Kellie Wells, whose intellect and… — Jaimy Gordon Copy Share Image
