“I can't allow what we learned in English composition to disrupt the sound and rhythm of the narrative.” — Elmore Leonard Copy Share Image
Poetry is prose bewitched, a music made of visual thoughts, the sound of an idea. — Mina Loy Copy Share Image
“Just because everybody uses language, that doesn't mean that they can write even tolerable prose.” — Stephen Jones Copy Share Image
I'm a games and theory kind of guy. I love puzzles, so it was fun dissecting Shakespeare's prose. — Neil Patrick Harris Copy Share Image
Originally, poetry creates the myth, while the prose-writer draws its portrait. — Jean-Paul Sartre 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
Glossy, efficient prose, garnished with a pinch of irony and a dab of melodrama. — Michiko Kakutani Copy Share Image
“This town of churches and dreams; this town I thought I would lose myself in, with its backward ways and winding roads… — Kellie Elmore Copy Share Image
Poetry is fascinating. As soon as it begins the poetry has changed the thing into something extra, and somehow prose can go… — Michael Tippett Copy Share Image
Nothing flatters me more than to have it assumed that I could write prose, unless it be to have it assumed that… — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
I used the word 'prose' in the Trans-Siberian in the early Latin sense of prosa dictu. Poem seemed to me too pretentious,… — Blaise Cendrars Copy Share Image
The prose poem Walk The Red Road is great stuff and deserves to be read aloud. It compares quite favorably to The… — Brian Aldiss Copy Share Image
My publisher had mailed [Bret Easton Ellis] Richard Yates. And when I talked to him he said he had read all my… — Tao Lin Copy Share Image
The newspaper is, in fact, very bad for one's prose style. That's why I gravitated towards feature stories where you get a… — Tom Wolfe 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
In almost every book I've written, there is a reference to a movie - legendary films, actors and actresses, and forgotten made-for-TV… — Denise Duhamel Copy Share Image
Herein find fiction full of whimsy, wit, hurt, and terror. Wicked, as in wickedly funny, is in the mix, too, along with… — Christine Schutt Copy Share Image
To me, the process of writing is just reading what I've written and - like running your hand over one of those… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
In general, I would think that at present prose writers are much in advance of the poets. In the old days, I… — William H. Gass Copy Share Image
It is in this matter that I fall foul of so many American writers on writing; they seem to think that writing… — Robertson Davies 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
With Wings of the Butterfly, John Urbancik infuses his tale of shapeshifters, romance and pack rivalry with some unexpected and welcome surprises.… — Kealan Patrick Burke Copy Share Image
I think the underlying purpose is expression. It's not about technique, it's not about hitting the right note, writing the perfect prose,… — Charlie Albright Copy Share Image
Writing fiction, for me, is a more indirect form of self-exploration than writing verse. When I'm working on a novel I'm moving… — Nick Laird Copy Share Image
“Four very strange and truly poetic human beings in this century have attained mastery in prose, for which this century was not… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
People often ask me why my style is so simple. It is, in fact, deceptively simple, for no two sentences are alike.… — Ruskin Bond Copy Share Image
An up-close portrait of middle-class Nigeria exploring the boundaries of morals and public decorum. Pitched between humor and despair, with stripped-down, evocative… — Nii Parkes Copy Share Image
“The great error consists in supposing that poetry is an unnatural form of language. We should all like to speak poetry at… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Then he went into the dining room, consulting his watch. It was ten thirty already. More than half the morning was gone.… — Richard Matheson Copy Share Image
I arrived at my way of "working" as a way of visually approximating what I feel the tone of fiction to be… — Chris Ware Copy Share Image
He was a physicist, more precisely an astrophysicist, diligent and eager but without illusions: the Truth lay beyond, inaccessible to our telescopes,… — Primo Levi Copy Share Image
Narrative prose is a legal wife, while drama is a posturing, boisterous, cheeky and wearisome mistress. — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
In prose, if you forget a line, you can say something else in the same context. — Puneet Issar Copy Share Image
The way we speak is very different from the way we write - especially from the way we write continuous prose. — Michael Rosen Copy Share Image
There is something about poetry beyond prose logic, there is mystery in it, not to be explained but admired. — Edward Young Copy Share Image
Luxury has been railed at for two thousand years, in verse and in prose, and it has always been loved. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Sociological prose can tell you everything, but it can't point out the grief. — Robert Bly Copy Share Image
The age is materialistic. Verse isn't. I must be with the age, so I am writing prose. — Paul Laurence Dunbar Copy Share Image
“Poetry, at the best, does us a kind of violence that prose fiction rarely attempts or accomplishes.” — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
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