“Sleeping Atlantis Silent cool waters dancing upon her skin ~ silent cool water ushering dreams within...” — Muse Copy Share Image
It has been said that good prose should resemble the conversation of a well-bred man. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Anyone who doubts that caffeine is a drug should read some of the prose composed under its influence. — Anne Fadiman Copy Share Image
“[Walt] Whitman would never get in the way of a boy trying to get off with another boy. Bros before prose.” — Lisa Henry Copy Share Image
Good authors, too, who once knew better words now only use four-letter words writing prose... anything goes. — Cole Porter Copy Share Image
I started out as a writer. Poetry and prose and also kind of satirical David Sedaris-esque stuff. — Pauley Perrette Copy Share Image
Considerations of plot do a great deal of heavy lifting when it comes to long-form narrative - readers will overlook the most… — Lynn Coady Copy Share Image
“In the story of life, the prologue and epilogue are written by God. Yet the plot has been given to us; therefore… — James D. Maxon Copy Share Image
Maggie Shipstead's prose is so graceful and muscular, so dazzling, so sure-handed and fearless, that at times I had to remind myself… — Maria Semple Copy Share Image
“When the others were picked up and walked home by friends or fathers or best friend’s sisters, I was the kid in… — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share Image
Music is more emotional than prose, more revolutionary than poetry. I'm not saying I've got the answers, just a of questions that… — Malcolm Wilson Copy Share Image
One could go on revising a prose page forever whereas there is a point in a poem when one knows it is… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
There is probably no finer prose writer alive in Britain now, no-one better at making a sentence, no-one better at descriptive writing,… — Linda Grant Copy Share Image
“The prose,” Robespierre said. “It’s so clean, no conceits, no show, no wit. He means every word. Formerly, you see, he meant… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
I love that moment in writing when language falls short. There is something more there. A larger body. Even by the failure… — Susan Griffin Copy Share Image
Thinking in prose is different. I gained an immense amount of respect for people who write prose, and also felt even more… — Matthew Zapruder Copy Share Image
All great questions must be raised by great voices, and the greatest voice is the voice of the people - speaking out… — Robert Kennedy Copy Share Image
We must never underestimate our power to be wrong when talking about God, when thinking about God, when imagining God, whether in… — Brian D. McLaren Copy Share Image
He turns and walks away, moving so quickly that the candle flames shiver with the motion of the air. “I miss you,”… — Erin Morgenstern Copy Share Image
Being incomprehensible offers unparalleled protection against having nothing to say...but writing with simplicity requires courage, for there is a danger that one… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
Edith Wharton was a natural story-teller. As plots do in real life, hers flow directly from character. Her prose is so effortlessly… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
City of prose and fantasy, of capitalist automation, its streets a triumph of cubism, its moral philosophy that of the dollar. New… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
“All writers are vain, selfish, and lazy, and at the very bottom of their motives there lies a mystery. Writing a book… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“But I was young and didn’t know better and someone should have told me to capture every second every kiss & every… — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share Image
“THE NEXT DAY WAS RAIN-SOAKED and smelled of thick sweet caramel, warm coconut and ginger. A nearby bakery fanned its daily offerings.… — Brandi L. Bates Copy Share Image
Winter is on my head, but eternal spring is in my heart. The nearer I approach the end, the plainer I hear… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
I've always believed that poetry must speak of realities as least as complicated as those spoken of in prose. I've read books… — Lawrence Joseph Copy Share Image
I believe he loved a lot of things about me, yet was afraid to accept. He said he never ended it because… — Dominic Riccitello Copy Share Image
“One may, in a case of exigency, introduce the reader in to a nuptial chamber, not into a virginal chamber. Verse would… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Printed prose is historically a most peculiar, almost an aberrant way of telling stories, and by far the most inherently anesthetic: It… — John Barth Copy Share Image
Next to the writer of real estate advertisements, the autobiographer is the most suspect of prose artists. — Donal Henahan Copy Share Image
“For me,” she wrote, “poetry is an evasion from the real job of writing prose.” Throughout” — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
I guess I find the boundaries between poetry and prose to be somewhat permeable. — Kevin Powers 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 was 14 or 15 when I discovered poetry, and I pretty much stopped writing prose until Master of Reality. — John Darnielle Copy Share Image
I love writing prose. I really love writing prose. It's very pleasurable for me. — Marjorie Liu Copy Share Image
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