In painting as in prose, a good eye is not enough to tell you whether what you see is real or fake. — David Bellos Copy Share Image
“Yet you stand, too ashamed to run, too fearful to embrace. God I see so much of what I love in that… — Suenammi Richards Copy Share Image
Here lies a plain and simple Jew who wrote in plain and simple prose. — Sholom Aleichem Copy Share Image
“Prose: words in their best order; poetry: the best words in the best order.” — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Prose is prose because of what it includes; poetry is poetry because of what it leaves out. — Marvin Bell Copy Share Image
My plays are made up of long monologues, which is similar to prose working with the language — Elfriede Jelinek Copy Share Image
We allude to the short prose narrative, requiring from a half hour to one or two hours in its perusal — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
A merely great intellect can produce prose, but not poetry, not one line. — Edward Thomas Copy Share Image
'Swan,' by Mary Oliver. Poems and prose. Reading from this book is as if visiting a very wise friend. There is wisdom… — Jessye Norman Copy Share Image
“Most important thing in life is family, Without them you are nothing. Whatever you do will be worth nothing, If there is… — Akash Lakhotia Copy Share Image
“The boy raised the can to his nose and smelled, his lips wrinkling back as if he'd caught the business end of… — R.J. Lawrence Copy Share Image
I like to write with a lot of emotion and a lot of power. Sometimes I overdo it; sometimes my prose is… — Anonymous 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
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'm a big admirer of Daniel Woodrell for his beautiful, precise, sparse prose - I don't do succinct well, so I'm in… — Tana French 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
In the plays - that's where I go crazy. But my prose has a much lighter touch; it's not trying to thrill… — Denis Johnson Copy Share Image
Words in prose ought to express the intended meaning; if they attract attention to themselves, it is a fault; in the very… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge 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
If you wrote a crummy line or maybe didn't sing to the best of your ability, there's layers of 10 different instruments… — Michelle Zauner Copy Share Image
By the time I was doing "Kill Bill," it was so much filled with prose that, you know, I start seeing why… — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share Image
Karl Popper once advised a student that if he wanted to reap intellectual fame, he should write endless pages of obscure, high-flown… — Anthony de Jasay Copy Share Image
“If a writer of prose knows enough about what he is writing about, he may omit things that he knows and the… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
You’re trying to take something that can be described in many, many sentences and pages of prose, but you can convert it… — Satya Nadella Copy Share Image
“The Waterfall and the Sea" "Her love and passion are a waterfall, fed from the wellspring of her heart, gently tumbling into… — Christopher Earle 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
“In getting from Windsor to Detroit there is a choice between a free tunnel and a toll bridge, which turned out to… — William Saroyan Copy Share Image
[Vathek] has, in parts, been called, but to some judgments, never is, dull: it is certainly in parts, grotesque, extravagant and even… — William Thomas Beckford Copy Share Image
“... because one day, maybe one day, if I learned how to write clear enough, sing loud enough, be strong enough, I… — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share Image
You have to seduce the reader, manipulate their mind and heart, listen to the music of language. I sometimes think of prose… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
“Feel no regret for roses, autumn too has its delights...How could she say that? Didn't she see that for us there could… — Raphael Carter Copy Share Image
I've been writing for a long time, since the late '60s. But it hasn't been in the same form. I used to… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
Behind the perfection of a man's style, must lie the passion of a man's soul. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Gil Thorpe is a great diversion and is to book writing as poetry is to prose. — Jerry B. Jenkins Copy Share Image
I love writing prose. I really love writing prose. It's very pleasurable for me. — Marjorie Liu Copy Share Image
When I first wanted to be a writer, I learned to write prose by reading poetry. — Nicholson Baker Copy Share Image
Prose is a poor thing, a poor inadequate thing, compared with poetry which says so much more in shorter time. — Vita Sackville-West Copy Share Image
A book that bores me to tears is a book that neglects character building and quality of prose. — Kristin Cashore Copy Share Image
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