“Within her simple, terrified mind, swift calculations of distance and speed were at work, and her face advertised the disappointing results.” — R.J. Lawrence Copy Share Image
“As his dark closet shows, Bluebeard was a collector at heart, and even after dispatching a wife, could not let her fully… — Shuli Barzilai Copy Share Image
A work of fiction should be, for its author, a journey into the unknown, and the prose should convey the difficulties of… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
Let my life as Poet begin. I want the life of the Poet. I have labored for over twelve years, one thousand… — Maxine Hong Kingston Copy Share Image
The Last Of England works with image and sound, a language which is nearer to poetry than prose. It tells its story… — Derek Jarman Copy Share Image
From the moment that photography appeared, the descriptive genre began to invade Letters... In verse as in prose the décor and exterior… — Paul Valery Copy Share Image
“... and you might say “no, you will never do that, that’s not you, not who I know, not who I thought… — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share Image
In the art of design, color is to form what verse is to prose,--a more harmonious and luminous vehicle of the thought. — Anna Brownell Jameson Copy Share Image
I love to read long books. I enjoy experiencing that extension. But it's not something I feel comfortable with and not something… — Shane McCrae Copy Share Image
It is useless to check the vain dunce who has caught the mania of scribbling, whether prose or poetry, canzonets or criticisms,--let… — Sarah Josepha Hale Copy Share Image
Without touching my subject I want to come to the moment when, through pure concentration of seeing, the composed picture becomes more… — Ernst Haas Copy Share Image
The raw beauty of Natalia Ginzburg’s prose compels our gaze. First we look inward, with the shock of recognition inspired by all… — Hilma Wolitzer Copy Share Image
“Living in this skin is hard and painful, most of the times, because I never volunteered to take this on. The daily… — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share Image
Michael Bohn provides a rare opportunity to experience the American sporting scene in the Roaring Twenties. A constant stream of legendary characters… — Peter Golenbock Copy Share Image
Fischer was a good kid but very unsophisticated about anything but chess. It was all chess for him, every waking moment. We'd… — Ronald Gross Copy Share Image
Sentences are not different enough to hold the attention unless they are dramatic. No ingenuity of varying structure will do. All that… — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
“The scrape and snap of Keds on loose alley pebbles seems to catapult their voices high into the moist March air blue… — John Updike Copy Share Image
He who writes prose builds his temple to Fame in rubble; he who writes verses builds it in granite. - Edward George… — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
I can't think why I was cursed with this inordinate desire to write, if the high gods weren't going to give me… — Winifred Holtby Copy Share Image
“There was a wildness inside him; someday he would capture it. Not to be tamed, but to be released. For only by… — Daniel J. Rice Copy Share Image
What I like about prose poems is that they seem to make people uncomfortable - people want to define them, justify them,… — Matthea Harvey Copy Share Image
Kaethe Schwehn's poignant memoir explores longing, both spiritual and physical, community and faith, in prose that is calm, lovely, and filled with… — Dinty W. Moore Copy Share Image
When I start writing a poem, I can usually know quite early on whether it's a lineated or prose poem, but I… — Matthea Harvey Copy Share Image
Poetry demands a different material than prose. It uses another facet of the same fact … the spontaneous conformation of language as… — William Carlos Williams Copy Share Image
All I want is a modest place in Mr X's Good Reading, Miss Y's Good Writing, and that new edition of One… — James Agate Copy Share Image
More people pay attention to fiction and to narrative than pay attention to journalism. That's quite sad. More people pay attention to… — David Simon Copy Share Image
Romance like a ghost escapes touching; it is always where you are not, not where you are. The interview or conversation was… — George William Curtis Copy Share Image
When seriously explored, the short story seems to me the most difficult and disciplining form of prose writing extant. Whatever control and… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
In prose, leaps of logic can be made while the protagonist thinks about things and arrives at conclusions. Even with voiceover, there's… — Denise Mina Copy Share Image
“In the end, all that a writer has to pass on is not myth and anecdote, but scene and character, evoked in… — Will Blythe Copy Share Image
“And I think that you must have observed again and again what a poor appearance the tales of poets make when stripped… — Plato Copy Share Image
Throughout his career, W.G. Sebald wrote poems that were strikingly similar to his prose. His tone, in both genres, was always understated… — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
ONE BLOOD is a richly detailed, intricately woven tale rendered in lush, evocative prose. This memorable debut heralds Qwantu Amaru as a… — Brandon Massey Copy Share Image
The most important tribute any human being can pay to a poem or a piece of prose he or she really loves… — George Steiner Copy Share Image
I read poetry every day. I love the boiled down essence of poetry. I look for poetry in prose. In a way… — Andre Dubus Copy Share Image
I grow very impatient with prose writers who don't pay attention to the cadence of the sentence. If you start as a… — Alison Hawthorne Deming Copy Share Image
Prose is like a window; fiction is like a door. But it is not uncommon that he who should come in through… — Mu Xin Copy Share Image
When you are writing literary writing, you are communicating something subtextual with emotions and poetry. The prose has to have a voice;… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
Science and art, or by the same token, poetry and prose differ from one another like a journey and an excursion. The… — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
What matters is not publication or success (success is bad for your prose) but the practice of the imaginative act. Our damaged… — Janet Burroway Copy Share Image
