When I am writing a novel I try not to read great prose stylists into which I will fall. — Frederick Busch Copy Share Image
And what holds good of verse holds infinitely better in respect to prose. — James Payn Copy Share Image
My heavens! I've been talking prose for the last forty years without knowing it. — Moliere Copy Share Image
To my mind, most prose poems are more prose than poetry. They don't possess most of the qualities of a poem. — Pattiann Rogers Copy Share Image
A lot of shows are more script-driven, like a prose script. As an actor, you never see a storyboard. — Tom Kenny Copy Share Image
Sociological prose is generally written without images in an exact form for an academic audience. — Robert Bly Copy Share Image
As a prose writer, I work with language; and those who work with language turn to poetry for renewal. — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
Keep your exclamation points under control. You are allowed no more than two or three per 100,000 words of prose. — Elmore Leonard Copy Share Image
So long as I remain alive and well I shall continue to feel strongly about prose style, to love the surface of… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
A breezy style is often the work of an egocentric, the person who imagines that everything that pops into his head is… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
I came to realize that far more important to me than any plot or conventional sense was the sheer directionality I felt… — Ben Lerner 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
The prose of Joe Pulver can take its place with that of the masters of our genre – E.A. Poe, H.P. Lovecraft,… — S. T. Joshi Copy Share Image
I used to write sonnets and various things, and moved from there into writing prose, which, incidentally, is a lot more interesting… — Shelby Foote Copy Share Image
“I want to burn with excitement or anger and bleed, bleed out my words. I want to get all fucked up and… — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share Image
The Enormous Room seems to me to be the book that has nearest approached the mood of reckless adventure in which men… — John Dos Passos Copy Share Image
I'm sorry I'm young," Deborah answered with a bitterness that was half prose. "We have a right to be as crazy as… — Joanne Greenberg Copy Share Image
I fear I have not one good word to say this fair morning, though the sun shines so encouragingly on the distant… — Margaret Fuller Copy Share Image
I try to write in a way where you care deeply what the next paragraph will be. I hear the rhythm of… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
I think that anyone who grew up reading and being taught the Bible, as I did, can't help but have their prose… — Ron Currie Jr Copy Share Image
This involves more than I can discuss here, but do it. Read the writers of great prose dialogue-people like Robert Stone and… — Janet Fitch Copy Share Image
You know that fiction, prose rather, is possibly the roughest trade of all in writing. You do not have the reference, the… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
When I was in law school I was taught that the great writers were people like [Oliver Wendell] Holmes Jr. and [Benjamin… — Jeffrey Rosen Copy Share Image
It may be safely affirmed that there neither is, nor can be, any essential difference between the language of prose and metrical… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
. . . you [film critics] always overstress the value of images. You judge films in the first place by their visual… — Orson Welles Copy Share Image
“He tried to measure his day by tallying the hours on his wrist. I wiped it off and called him a prisoner.… — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
“Every novel which is truly written contributes to the total of knowledge which is there at the disposal of the next writer… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Clyde Phillip Wachsberger's delightful memoir about tending beds of flowers as compensation for a lonely middle age only to find unexpected romance… — Philip Gambone Copy Share Image
“There, arrows are thrown slowly — but they hurt. The first arrow comes from a one-sided decision — as though only one… — Tommy Wibowo Copy Share Image
“I was never afraid of the dark and I spent my youth walking through empty playgrounds at midnight, worried mothers telling girls… — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share Image
Will there never come a season Which shall rid us from the curse? Of a prose which knows no reason And an… — James Kenneth Stephen Copy Share Image
The novel is a prose narrative of some length that has something wrong with it. — Randall Jarrell Copy Share Image
Metaphors are an interesting example of creating magic in prose. — Francesca Lia Block Copy Share Image
I think poetry is a fabulous medium to encapsulate thoughts far more precisely than prose. — Kapil Sibal Copy Share Image
“Some can't handle the fiery poet, how she rips into souls burning words into prose.” — Melody Lee Copy Share Image
When I was writing in Bulgarian, I could hide behind beautiful prose. — Miroslav Penkov Copy Share Image
I read a lot of prose poetry and get inspired by more-so just a state of mind. — William Beckett Copy Share Image
![“When I was in law school I was taught that the great writers were people like [Oliver Wendell] Holmes Jr. and [Benjamin N.] Cardozo. But you go back and read their prose and it's sort of perfumed and very ornate and show-offy. And they're constantly striving for these abstractions that seem…” quote by Jeffrey Rosen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9c9/jeffrey-rosen-13180_abstraction_when-i-was-in-law-school-i-was-taught-th_1879201.jpg)
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