The best prose is written by authors who see their universe with a poet’s eyes. — Vera Brittain Copy Share Image
I don't think there's any essential difference, at least for me, between writing poetry and writing prose. — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
To overcome the academic prose you have first to overcome the academic pose, — C. Wright Mills Copy Share Image
It is not a waste to write beautiful prose or poetry for one person's eyes alone! — Edith Schaeffer Copy Share Image
“Certainly, reading Post-Structuralist prose is a form of work, like jogging with a nail in your shoe.” — Hugh Kenner Copy Share Image
I am a poet who composes what life proses, and who proses what life composes. — Khalil Gibran 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
I really don't have a lot in common with the people who attend the Comic Con. It's like assuming that all people… — Harvey Pekar Copy Share Image
Art, whatever form it takes, requires hard work, craftsmanship and creativity. As a writer, I know my grammar, cadence, the music of… — F. Sionil Jose Copy Share Image
Poetry is its own medium; it's very different than writing prose. Poetry can talk in an imagistic sense, it has particular ways… — Story Musgrave Copy Share Image
“[A]lways get to the dialogue as soon as possible. I always feel the thing to go for is speed. Nothing puts the… — P.G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
Writing a play, you have to retain it all in your head - you need more time. With prose, you can snatch… — Nell Leyshon Copy Share Image
The language of the age is never the language of poetry, except among the French, whose verse, where the thought or image… — Thomas Gray Copy Share Image
I do love the prose poem because it's such a perverse and provocative little box - always asking to be questioned, never… — Matthea Harvey Copy Share Image
Full of fun, over-the-top characters and witty prose, with a touch of gay romance that is equally pleasing to straight readers. The… — Rhys Bowen Copy Share Image
“They're waiting for you to say all these grand statements, you know? You march across the room and you're supposed to say… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
The way something looks or sounds is also what it means. Words as visual and aural phenomena, which mainly poets, not critics… — Masha Tupitsyn Copy Share Image
As a blogger, Chez Pazienza is filled with outrage, passion and insight -- delivered with a distinctive point of view, a wicked… — Arianna Huffington Copy Share Image
Fiction isn't made by scraping the bones of topicality for the last shreds and sinews, to be processed into mechanically recovered prose.… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
“There are very few friends that will lie down with you on empty streets in the middle of the night, without a… — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share Image
I think when you're writing prose there's a lot of attendant description and that's were I used to really go bananas. With… — Diablo Cody Copy Share Image
The borderline between prose and poetry is one of those fog-shrouded literary minefields where the wary explorer gets blown to bits before… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Prose is an art form, movies and acting in general are art forms, so is music, painting, graphics, sculpture, and so on.… — Sam Lake 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
I think graphic novels are closer to prose than film, which is a really different form. — Denise Mina 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
Poetry is halfway between prose and music: it is sometimes like an intimate conversation, in words and phrases which need not be… — Gilbert Highet Copy Share Image
“... the structure of a page of good prose is, analyzed logically, not something frozen but the vibrating of a bridge, which… — Robert Musil Copy Share Image
What a poor appearance the tales of poets make when stripped of the colours which music puts upon them, and recited in… — Plato Copy Share Image
There are people who believe in an absolutely transparent prose; with every respect for clarity of expression, I don't. — John M. Ford Copy Share Image
Poetry has the virtue of being able to say twice as much as prose in half the time, and the drawback, if… — Christopher Fry Copy Share Image
The words in prose ought to express the intended meaning, and no more; if they attract attention to themselves, it is, in… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
In the big picture I write for an audience of people I've never met. By the final draft I'm looking for anything… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
With short stories, the story-teller must have a story to tell, not merely some sweet prose to take out for a walk — Herbert Gold Copy Share Image
Poetry is a language for when you can't quite write prose about something, you can't quite say it, but if you do… — Sakyong Mipham Copy Share Image
All those authors there, most of whom of course I've never met. That's the poetry side, that's the prose side, that's the… — Norman MacCaig Copy Share Image
Educationists are entertaining. We can always find a good laugh in their prose, with its special, ludicrous combination of ignorance and pretentiousness. — Richard Mitchell Copy Share Image
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