when a poem says something that could not have been said in any other way, in music, prose, sculpture, movement or paint,… — Sybil Marshall Copy Share Image
“If someone likes my fiction more for the quality of my prose rather than the quality of my storytelling, I'm doing something… — Jamie Ford Copy Share Image
To be natural is revolutionary. Tha's why I'm thrilled to work with Prose, a company that celebrates all unique personalities, hair types… — Lauren Ridloff Copy Share Image
My whole life has been a twenty years struggle between poetry and prose, or, if you like to call it so, Music… — Robert Schumann Copy Share Image
I like bringing poetry's focus on figurative language and compression into the essay. Of course, the musical properties of language, the cadence… — Alison Hawthorne Deming Copy Share Image
“I gripped against her like she was metal and I was all full of lightning, charged up and jagged and of that… — Chris Howard Copy Share Image
I'm a failed poet. Reading poetry helps me to see the world differently, and I try to infuse my prose with figurative… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
Mr Witwould: "Pray, madam, do you pin up your hair with all your letters? I find I must keep copies." Mrs Millamant:… — William Congreve Copy Share Image
The beauty of word processing, God bless my word processor, is that it keeps the plotting very fluid. The prose becomes like… — Sue Grafton Copy Share Image
In the plays - that's where I go crazy. But my prose has a much lighter touch; it's not trying to thrill… — Denis Johnson Copy Share Image
Pace is crucial. Fine writing isn't enough. Writing students can be great at producing a single page of well-crafted prose; what they… — Rose Tremain Copy Share Image
How well I know what I mean to do When the long dark Autumn evenings come, And where, my soul, is thy… — Robert Browning Copy Share Image
'The Sound of Things Falling' may be a page turner, but it's also a deep meditation on fate and death. Even in… — Edmund White Copy Share Image
I was very fierce and very driven at eighteen. But my basic philosophy I think has stayed the same, I'm still an… — Tobsha Learner Copy Share Image
Nobody reads anymore in America. Reading has become the least effective delivery system for narrative. That's sad because prose is the means… — David Simon Copy Share Image
The 250-page outline for American Tabloid. The books are so dense. They're so complex, you cannot write like I write off the… — James Ellroy Copy Share Image
He can develop sense and style, in the manner of distinguished modern prose, in which event he may be sure that the… — John Crowe Ransom Copy Share Image
A short story is "a short prose narrative, requiring from a half hour, to one or two hours in its perusal...having conceived,… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
Writing a poem is a more personal experience, I think, than writing prose. And perhaps reading a poem is a more personal… — Nick Laird Copy Share Image
The thing about Dickens is you either love him or you hate him and I fell in love with Dickens, I fell… — George Brandis Copy Share Image
Prose pretends to be straightforward in its application to the truth, but truth itself is a dissembler. Poetry, much more honest, knows… — Laurence Overmire Copy Share Image
Prose exists to convey meaning, and no meaning such as prose conveys can be expressed as well in poetry. That's not poetry's… — Basil Bunting Copy Share Image
Prose is admittedly an art rooted in social intercourse, and a fiction writer is faster to find a common denominator with his… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
Those who talk of the bible as a monument of English prose are merely admiring it as a monument over the grave… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
Gertrude Stein's prose-song is a cold, black suet-pudding… Cut it at any point, it is the same thing ... all fat, without nerve. — Wyndham Lewis Copy Share Image
Money, which represents the prose of life, and which is hardly spoken of in parlors without an apology, is, in its effects… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The Italian prose tale had begun to exercise that influence as early as Chaucer's time: but circumstances and atmosphere were as yet… — George Saintsbury Copy Share Image
What I'm constantly striving for in my prose is clarity. So that, ideally, the writing will become so transparent that the reader… — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
“Without play at many levels of language, from phonemes to logical structures, a poem is merely prose with linebreaks added.” — Helen Vendler Copy Share Image
If there's anything I'm keen to get better at in my writing, then it's the writing of prose as opposed to the… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
I often say that Bernhard, W.G. Sebald, and Javier Marías are my stylistic holy trinity, prose writers who amaze me with their… — Garth Greenwell Copy Share Image
Polishing: a useful lesson for the hopeful writer. You say your tormented prose doesn't read as well as mine? Neither does mine,… — Piers Anthony Copy Share Image
Writing anything is terribly hard but, alas for me, because I am addicted, a heck of a lot of fun. I often… — Judy Collins Copy Share Image
I find old copies of National Gallery catalogues, which are written in the dryest possible prose, infinitely soothing. — Howard Hodgkin Copy Share Image
History meets romance meets suspense! Compelling, original and wildly romantic, Beatriz Williams’ prose is stunning and the plot edge-of-your-seat gripping. OVERSEAS is… — Tilly Bagshawe Copy Share Image
In the television age, the key distinction is between the candidate who can speak poetry and the one who can only speak… — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
I like a great degree of compression. I like to mix lateral steps with forward ones. I don't want the prose ever… — Michael Helm Copy Share Image
We all often feel like we are pulling teeth, even those writers whose prose ends up being the most natural and fluid.… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
A good writer preserves an air of freedom in his prose, so that the reader won't know how a story will end… — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
Buechner is a worthy member of the great prose stylists: Pascal, Newman, and Merton, who have harnessed their art to a passionate… — Louis Auchincloss Copy Share Image
