I think graphic novels are closer to prose than film, which is a really different form. — Denise Mina Copy Share Image
“Marriage is a book in which the first chapter is written in poetry and the remaining chapters in prose.” — Beverley Nichols Copy Share Image
Poetry is a beautiful way of spoiling prose, and the laborious art of exchanging plain sense for harmony. — Horace Walpole Copy Share Image
Cormac McCarthy's language is perfect. He is in my view the greatest living American prose stylist. — Tommy Lee Jones Copy Share Image
The language of politics is poetry, not prose. Jackson is poetry. Cuomo is poetry. Dukakis is a word processor. — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
Marriage...a book of which the first chapter is written in poetry and the remaining chapters written in prose. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I do not wish to produce prose that draws attention to itself, rather than the world it describes. — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
When you have an idea for a story, you want those characters to reach as many people as you can. I think… — Robert Morgan Copy Share Image
No, I can't write treatments, I think there's a danger with treatments. That you... you write out your first excitement and enthusiasm… — Ronald Harwood Copy Share Image
I've always liked police-blotter kind of writing, or the writing of a policeman, right to the point and hardboiled. That's how I… — Jonathan Ames Copy Share Image
I have always felt that the truth is prophetic, and that if you describe precisely what you see and give it life… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
Only connect the prose and the passion, and both will be exalted, and human love will be seen at its highest. Live… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
Everything that's prose isn't verse and everything that isn't verse is prose. Now you see what it is to be a scholar! — Moliere Copy Share Image
I never wrote poetry, just prose. I don't really consider songwriting a form of poetry either. The words are important, of course,… — Michael Gira Copy Share Image
The language of prose is very different than the language of cinema, so the movie has to successfully translate what was in… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
Each time I undertake to reread Virginia Woolf, I am somewhat baffled by the signature breathlessness and relentlessly "poetic" tone, the shimmering… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
“To Scottie July 18, 1940 p.454 The prose talent depends on other factors- assimilation of material and careful selection of it, or… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“...prose unfolds in time; and time contains both obstacles and revelations. Prose develops, the way characters and situations do. It requires a… — Molly Peacock Copy Share Image
I approach writing a poem in a much different state than when I am writing prose. It's almost as if I were… — Pattiann Rogers 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
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
What I desire of a poem is a clear understanding of motive, and a just evaluation of feeling A poem in the… — Yvor Winters Copy Share Image
I've been working on a collection of prose vignettes about girls I've had crushes on, from the age of six to the… — Ron Padgett 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
Despots play their part in the works of thinkers. Fettered words are terrible words. The writer doubles and trebles the power of… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
The strange, wonderful stories of Doctor Olaf van Schuler's Brain introduce us to the tremendously gifted Kirsten Menger-Anderson, a writer whose subject… — Ben Fountain Copy Share Image
“Feelings that would not have disgraced a leader who, now that the snow has begun to fall and the mountain-top is covered… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Translated literature can be fascinating. There's something so intriguing about reading the text second hand - a piece of prose that has… — Katie Kitamura Copy Share Image
...Mr. Wodehouse is a prose stylist of such startling talent that Frankie nearly skipped around with glee when she first read some… — E. Lockhart Copy Share Image
...We may encounter many defeats, but we must not be defeated. That sounds goody two-shoes, I know, but I believe that a… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
“The first wind of winter blew from the north, and it had ice and rime on its breath. It was dirty and… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
My whole life has been a struggle between Poetry and Prose, or call it Music and Law. — Robert Schumann Copy Share Image
Prose poetry is not set to a melody or music so there's something freeing about it. — William Beckett Copy Share Image
“I like too many things and get all confused and hung-up running from one falling star to another til I drop.” — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
If you ever want to understand multitasking in prose, James Joyce is your man. — Frank Delaney Copy Share Image
Good Heavens! For more than forty years I have been speaking prose without knowing it. — Moliere Copy Share Image
If you are an autodidact, you probably do write more in the rhythm of speech rather than having learnt prose. — Viv Albertine Copy Share Image
The older I get, the more I seek to use a plain prose style, concentrating more on story. — John Scott Copy Share Image
I'm not as good a prose writer as I'd like to be, but I never aspired to that. — Mark Waid Copy Share Image
