The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mould of the body and mind entire. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Yet, it is true, poetry is delicious; the best prose is that which is most full of poetry. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Updike was the first to take the penile sensorium under the wing of elaborate metaphorical prose. — Nicholson Baker Copy Share Image
Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“My aim is to place cinema among the other art forms. To put it on a par with music, poetry, prose, etc.” — Andrei Tarkovsky Copy Share Image
Don't scatter your fire! You are a prose writer: stick to your own tool! — Sarah Orne Jewett Copy Share Image
The unit of the poet is the word, the unit of the prose writer is the sentence. — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
“a novel can best be defined as a long piece of prose with something wrong with it, and” — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
EPIGRAM, n. A short, sharp saying in prose or verse, frequently characterize by acidity or acerbity and sometimes by wisdom. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
I'm working on a poetry collection for Papaveria Press . It fills me with trepidation - poetry is something I'm much more… — Theodora Goss Copy Share Image
Sometimes I make films about scenes other filmmakers would leave out, so I just make the film out of all the things… — Jim Jarmusch Copy Share Image
There is such a thing as literary fashion, and prose and verse have been regulated by the same caprice that cuts our… — Isaac D'Israeli 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
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
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 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
I really - I don't take my work that seriously, and I think that's what keeps me loose. If I try to… — Elmore Leonard Copy Share Image
Speech and prose are not the same thing. They have different wave-lengths, for speech moves at the speed of light, where prose… — James Kenneth Stephen Copy Share Image
“Through a story that delineates the power of words to obfuscate, exploit, and distort human reality, Henry James offers his own nuanced,… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
OF writing many books there is no end; And I who have written much in prose and verse For others' uses, will… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning Copy Share Image
It is perfectly legitimate to write novels which are essentially prose poems, but in the end, I think, a novel is like… — Robert Harris Copy Share Image
“Moments later, I was climbing nervously into the back of the car. The driver wore the archetypal expression of an antagonist. No… — Agnes Chew Copy Share Image
“It was quite a beautiful thing, the way we simply just came to be, with no effort or trying and slowly we… — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share Image
For me, prose is never a poem. Because with prose there are so very few tools to create the music. And one… — Pattiann Rogers Copy Share Image
Gene Wolfe is the greatest writer in the English language alive today. Let me repeat that: Gene Wolfe is the greatest writer… — Michael Swanwick 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
“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
There was one person who greatly and directly benefited my career--my agent Virginia Kidd. From 1968 to the late nineties she represented… — Ursula K. Le Guin 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
The second volume of Reiner Stach's epic biography of Franz Kafka . . . [is] a tangle of counter-grained and often under-sourced… — Steve Donoghue Copy Share Image
“T. S. Eliot and Jean-Paul Sartre, dissimilar enough as thinkers, both tend to undervalue prose and to deny it any imaginative function.… — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
“You alone in Europe are not ancient oh Christianity The most modern European is you Pope Pius X And you whom the… — Guillaume Apollinaire Copy Share Image
And write what you love - don't feel pressured to write serious prose if what you like is to be funny. — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
“An author never lies. We do, however tend to speak in a fictional prose.” — Carl Henegan Copy Share Image
I dwell in Possibility A fairer house than Prose More numerous of Windows Superior — for Doors. — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
My preference is for prose with more silence in it, language that contains more pockets of strangeness. — Anthony Doerr Copy Share Image
Behind the perfection of a man's style, must lie the passion of a man's soul. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
A merely great intellect can produce prose, but not poetry, not one line. — Edward Thomas Copy Share Image
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