Writers acquire their technique by spotting, savoring, and reverse-engineering examples of good prose. — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
“Remember, life is a bit tough most of the time. Also remember, if it was easy it would be boring.” — Akash Lakhotia Copy Share Image
“I was no longer able to hear the music that issues from a decent piece of prose.” — Carlos Ruiz Zafón Copy Share Image
I have to say from the outset that not all prose can be transferred to the screen. — Andrei Tarkovsky Copy Share Image
I have a much greater ambition to be the best racket player than the best prose writer. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
“I wouldn't give ten gallons of my own piss for clear sentence that gives the sense of a tree as a tree,… — David Joseph Cribbin Copy Share Image
[Political] prose consists less and less of words chosen for the sake of their meaning, and more and more of phrases tacked… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Histories never conclude; they just pause their prose. Their stories are, if they are truthful, untidy affairs, resistant to windings-up and sortings-out.… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
Poetry is so close to music, not just in cadence and sound but in silences. That's why, to me, I can't talk… — Pattiann Rogers Copy Share Image
I guess: People who are comfortable enough with reality to allow other sorts of realities and other mindsets to just be, and… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
“[A]lways get to the dialogue as soon as possible. I always feel the thing to go for is speed. Nothing puts the… — P.G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
Poetry is its own medium; it's very different than writing prose. Poetry can talk in an imagistic sense, it has particular ways… — Story Musgrave Copy Share Image
Art, whatever form it takes, requires hard work, craftsmanship and creativity. As a writer, I know my grammar, cadence, the music of… — F. Sionil Jose Copy Share Image
The Watch is a powerful tale, courageous both in concept and creation: an ancient tale made modern, passed through different narrators in… — Aminatta Forna Copy Share Image
What line breaks add to prose prosody is a connection between eye and ear which emphasizes the nature of the language by… — Diane Wakoski Copy Share Image
Lately, I've been thinking about the difference between poetry and prose, and as I've experienced it, poetry is insistent. It allows for… — Tracy K. Smith Copy Share Image
At some point, sitting in the school library, during reading period, I looked up from my leopard print hardcover composition notebook where… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
Writing for publication is an art, a craft, and a business, so you need to develop skill sets in multiple areas. You… — Brian Hodge 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
“My prose was clunky compared to his. I got hung up on diction and syntax; I agonized over every word. Matt's prose… — M. Pierce Copy Share Image
Certainly I'm participating in an already established and awesome tradition, but it's a tradition that sort of shoots up and through the… — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share Image
I'm often a little perplexed, when I read a review of a book, by the quotes that are pulled out as evidence… — Katie Kitamura Copy Share Image
“I wish life could be edited as deftly as prose. It would be nice to go back and write a better story,… — Sue Grafton Copy Share Image
My Family and Other Saints echoes Gerald Durrell's classic memoir, My Family and Other Animals, not only in its title, but in… — Judith Barrington 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
“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
. . . 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
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
“A forced contemplation of the heavens, crisp and angelic blue, a classic prelude to death.” — Rachel Kushner Copy Share Image
“Later when they would mention, they would say, and everyone would know, but not nearly as well as they meant.” — Mikl Paul Copy Share Image
According to [Maxine Hong] Kingston, the prose writer is "a workhorse." — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
It is a way we reassess our past. We can do that in poetry in ways we can't do in prose. — Peter Davison Copy Share Image
“They rolled up the path, tree branches raking the windshield like angry wardens.” — R.J. Lawrence Copy Share Image
David Bergen is a master of taut, spare prose that's both erotic and hypnotic. . . . — Miriam Toews Copy Share Image
![“[Political] prose consists less and less of words chosen for the sake of their meaning, and more and more of phrases tacked together like the sections of a prefabricated hen-house.” quote by George Orwell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/abf/george-orwell-57_chosen_political-prose-consists-less-and-less-o_2127187.jpg)
![“I guess: People who are comfortable enough with reality to allow other sorts of realities and other mindsets to just be, and then to regard these with real interest and joy [and the joy appears in the prose quality itself].” quote by George Saunders](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f7b/george-saunders-317_comfortable_i-guess-people-who-are-comfortable-enoug_2220701.jpg)
![“[A]lways get to the dialogue as soon as possible. I always feel the thing to go for is speed. Nothing puts the reader off more than a big slab of prose at the start." (Interview, The Paris Review , Issue 64, Winter 1975)” quote by P.G. Wodehouse](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/989/p-g-wodehouse-723_communication_a-lways-get-to-the-dialogue-as-soon-as-p_13316.png)
![“At some point, sitting in the school library, during reading period, I looked up from my leopard print hardcover composition notebook where I was scribbling a derivative [John Ronald Reuel ] Tolkien epic full of purple prose in tiny handwriting and thought to myself, "Damn! I am a writer! How did…” quote by Vera Nazarian](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e91/vera-nazarian-1671_composition_at-some-point-sitting-in-the-school-libr_2693043.png)
![“. . . you [film critics] always overstress the value of images. You judge films in the first place by their visual impact instead of looking for content. This is a great disservice to the cinema. It is like judging a novel only by the quality of its prose. I was guilty of the same sin when I first…” quote by Orson Welles](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/871/orson-welles-1628_cinema_you-film-critics-always-overstress-the-v_573619.jpg)
![“According to [Maxine Hong] Kingston, the prose writer is "a workhorse."” quote by Shirley Geok-lin Lim](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e2c/shirley-geok-lin-lim-3190_prose_according-to-maxine-hong-kingston-the-pr_3070308.png)
