Prose Quotes · Page 16

And write what you love - don't feel pressured to write serious prose if what you like is to be funny.

— Cassandra Clare

“a novel can best be defined as a long piece of prose with something wrong with it, and”

— Neil Gaiman

But what humans forget, cells remember. The body, that elephant

— Jeffrey Eugenides

The unit of the poet is the word, the unit of the prose writer is the sentence.

— Susan Sontag

“My aim is to place cinema among the other art forms. To put it on a par with music, poetry, prose, etc.”

— Andrei Tarkovsky

Don't scatter your fire! You are a prose writer: stick to your own tool!

— Sarah Orne Jewett

Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over.

— Ernest Hemingway

“They rolled up the path, tree branches raking the windshield like angry wardens.”

— R.J. Lawrence

Speech recognition is utterly crap for writing fiction. If you try reading a novel aloud you'll soon figure out why - written…

— Charles Stross

Polyphonic prose is a kind of free verse, except that it is still freer. Polyphonic makes full use of cadence, rime, alliteration,…

— Amy Lowell

“Despite my affection for subtext and plot and prose at its best... life, it turns out, is nothing more than the finer…

— Bailey Vincent

A prose writer gets tired of writing prose, and wants to be a poet. So he begins every line with a capital…

— Samuel McChord Crothers

The poet is a creator, not an iconoclast, and never will tamely endeavor to say in prose what can only be expressed…

— Edmund Clarence Stedman

The notes I have made are not a diary in the ordinary sense, but partly lengthy records of my spiritual experiences, and…

— Edvard Munch

A lot of times you get people writing wonderful sentences and paragraphs, and they fall in love with their prose style, but…

— James Patterson

Hundreds of butterflies flitted in and out of sight like short-lived punctuation marks in a stream of consciousness without beginning or end.

— Haruki Murakami

“We weren’t happy together but we lived in a state of easy, mild contentment. We shared everything except the stupid fucking secret…

— Jon Gresham

At the emergence of the modern novel with Rabelais and Cervantes, all kinds of things were possible in a long-form prose work.…

— Teju Cole

When interviewing for a job, tell the editor how you love to report. How your passion is gathering information. Do not mention…

— Michael Hastings

[John Adams's] vividly descriptive prose is supremely quotable. Adams wears his heart on his sleeve and reveals all of his ambitions, doubts,…

— Gordon S. Wood

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

What line breaks add to prose prosody is a connection between eye and ear which emphasizes the nature of the language by…

— Diane Wakoski

The Watch is a powerful tale, courageous both in concept and creation: an ancient tale made modern, passed through different narrators in…

— Aminatta Forna

[Science fiction is] that class of prose narrative treating of a situation that could not arise in the world we know, but…

— Kingsley Amis

It is a way we reassess our past. We can do that in poetry in ways we can't do in prose.

— Peter Davison

According to [Maxine Hong] Kingston, the prose writer is "a workhorse."

— Shirley Geok-lin Lim

“Later when they would mention, they would say, and everyone would know, but not nearly as well as they meant.”

— Mikl Paul

Before you came the world was prose. Now poetry is born.

— Nizar Qabbani

“A forced contemplation of the heavens, crisp and angelic blue, a classic prelude to death.”

— Rachel Kushner

Prose is a photography, poetry is a painting in oil-colors.

— Austin O'Malley

I have a much greater ambition to be the best racket player than the best prose writer.

— William Hazlitt

“I seek the city because there is nothing sweeter than not being alone in your loneliness.”

— Charlotte Eriksson

Jack Kerouac did what he most wanted to do. He wrote great prose. He became the writer he wanted to be.

— Joyce Johnson

And now more than anything I want beautiful prose. I relish it more and more exquisitely.

— Virginia Woolf

I can manage a prose format as long as I keep closer to Laurence Sterne than to Henry James.

— David Antin

MARRIAGE, Is a book in which the first chapter is written in poetry and the rest of the book is prose;

— Nikhil Saluja

David Bergen is a master of taut, spare prose that's both erotic and hypnotic. . . .

— Miriam Toews

“To write past events in the present tense adds immediacy to your prose. ~Yvonne Blackwood”

— Yvonne Blackwood

“If anything can be said in prose, then poetry should be saved for saying nothing.”

— Pierre Albert-Birot

I spend eight months outlining and researching the novel before I begin to write a single word of the prose.

— Jeffery Deaver