Prose Quotes · Page 16

I always say that a poet loves the world, and the prose writer needs to create an alternative world.

— Mary Karr

“The displacement of water is equal to the something of something.”

— William Faulkner

The gap between verse and poetry is enormous. Between good poetry and good prose the gap is much narrower

— Michael Longley

“This world can be quite wonderful once you let yourself be a part of it.”

— Charlotte Eriksson

Warfare is the father of all good things, it is also the father of good prose!

— Friedrich Nietzsche

I write novellas because I don't like loose sprawling prose.

— Jim Harrison

“So let there be prose. There must be a divine prose for the Prophet to triumph”

— Mahmoud Darwish

For me, poetry is an evasion of the real job of writing prose.

— Sylvia Plath

“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

Considerations of plot do a great deal of heavy lifting when it comes to long-form narrative - readers will overlook the most…

— Lynn Coady

“I want to burn with excitement or anger and bleed, bleed out my words. I want to get all fucked up and…

— Charlotte Eriksson

I used to write sonnets and various things, and moved from there into writing prose, which, incidentally, is a lot more interesting…

— Shelby Foote

The prose of Joe Pulver can take its place with that of the masters of our genre – E.A. Poe, H.P. Lovecraft,…

— S. T. Joshi

Prose is like this big block - you write big paragraphs. I feel that when I'm reading and writing, that a prose…

— Bill Callahan

I came to realize that far more important to me than any plot or conventional sense was the sheer directionality I felt…

— Ben Lerner

So long as I remain alive and well I shall continue to feel strongly about prose style, to love the surface of…

— George Orwell

I'm sorry I'm young," Deborah answered with a bitterness that was half prose. "We have a right to be as crazy as…

— Joanne Greenberg

I fear I have not one good word to say this fair morning, though the sun shines so encouragingly on the distant…

— Margaret Fuller

The Enormous Room seems to me to be the book that has nearest approached the mood of reckless adventure in which men…

— John Dos Passos

I think the underlying purpose is expression. It's not about technique, it's not about hitting the right note, writing the perfect prose,…

— Charlie Albright

With Wings of the Butterfly, John Urbancik infuses his tale of shapeshifters, romance and pack rivalry with some unexpected and welcome surprises.…

— Kealan Patrick Burke

The only valid reason to use clichés is in the speech of a character. Cliches are indications of sloppy writing. The writer…

— Leonard Bishop

It is in this matter that I fall foul of so many American writers on writing; they seem to think that writing…

— Robertson Davies

To me, the process of writing is just reading what I've written and - like running your hand over one of those…

— George Saunders

It has been said that good prose should resemble the conversation of a well-bred man.

— W. Somerset Maugham

“Sleeping Atlantis Silent cool waters dancing upon her skin ~ silent cool water ushering dreams within...”

— Muse

The most beautiful prose paragraph yet written by any American.

— Harold Bloom

I read a lot of prose poetry and get inspired by more-so just a state of mind.

— William Beckett

When I was writing in Bulgarian, I could hide behind beautiful prose.

— Miroslav Penkov

“Some can't handle the fiery poet, how she rips into souls burning words into prose.”

— Melody Lee

I think poetry is a fabulous medium to encapsulate thoughts far more precisely than prose.

— Kapil Sibal

Metaphors are an interesting example of creating magic in prose.

— Francesca Lia Block

Poetry creates the myth, the prose writer draws its portrait.

— Jean-Paul Sartre

The novel is a prose narrative of some length that has something wrong with it.

— Randall Jarrell

All which is not prose is verse; and all which is not verse is prose.

— Moliere

I started out as a writer. Poetry and prose and also kind of satirical David Sedaris-esque stuff.

— Pauley Perrette

Good authors, too, who once knew better words now only use four-letter words writing prose... anything goes.

— Cole Porter

“[Walt] Whitman would never get in the way of a boy trying to get off with another boy. Bros before prose.”

— Lisa Henry

Anyone who doubts that caffeine is a drug should read some of the prose composed under its influence.

— Anne Fadiman

I guess I find the boundaries between poetry and prose to be somewhat permeable.

— Kevin Powers