I think radio plays are my favourite medium, as they make the listener work and create and contribute in a way that… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“Stepping through fields of flowers and taking to her brest buds that had broken and lambs that had fallen; with the stars… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I feel like I'm a natural-born playwright, but the prose thing has always mystified me. How to keep it going? How do… — Sam Shepard Copy Share Image
Many people become bankrupt through having invested too heavily in the prose of life. To have ruined one's self over poetry is… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
In prose, I think you sometimes have to write in very plain language, where every line may not seem to be so… — Grace Paley Copy Share Image
If you have a good story idea, don't assume it must form a prose narrative. It may work better as a play,… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
I learned that to be amusing was not to be frivolous and that language - always the language - was the magic… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
The atmosphere of orthodoxy is always damaging to prose, and above all it is completely ruinous to the novel, the most anarchical… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Revision is not the end of the creative process, but a new beginning. It's a chance not just to clean up and… — John Dufresne Copy Share Image
I'm always looking for poetry's place in the prose. For that moment, let's say, that arrests time, or that sentence in which… — Jack Driscoll Copy Share Image
Prose of the World is an enormously compelling and vivid study. The result is an ambitious, timely, and eloquent account of the… — Rebecca L. Walkowitz Copy Share Image
Poets seem to write more easily about love than prose writers. For a start, they own that flexible ‘I’…. Then again, poets… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
Writing for the page is only one form of writing for the eye. Wherever solemn inscriptions are put up in public places,… — James Fenton Copy Share Image
I think the most reliable way to teach it is through reading work aloud over and over. Many prose writers been encouraged… — Paul Lisicky Copy Share Image
There are some simple maxims which I think might be commended to writers of expository prose. First: never use a long word… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Karl Popper once advised a student that if he wanted to reap intellectual fame, he should write endless pages of obscure, high-flown… — Anthony de Jasay Copy Share Image
I'm happy to be a writer - of prose, poetry, every kind of writing. Every person in the world who isn't a… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
She's always looking for poetry and passion and sensitivity, the whole Romantic kitchen. I live on a rather simpler diet.' 'Prose and… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
The more prose I wrote, the more the pendulum swung back toward the middle, merging some poetic sensibilities with the more fundamental… — Alex Lemon Copy Share Image
They have written volumes out of which a couplet of verse, a period in prose, may cling to the rock of ages,… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
“He said that he felt that there was a book hidden between us. Some small thing lodged between a rib or a… — Mikl Paul Copy Share Image
I have always tended toward a lush prose style, but I take care to modulate it from story to story and to… — Jeff VanderMeer Copy Share Image
Poetry and prose are of equal importance to me as a reader, and there doesn't seem to be much difference in my… — Kevin Powers Copy Share Image
No people are more conceited than those who depict their own feelings, especially if they happen to have a little prose at… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
I am a pretty omnivoracious reader in respect to prose style, but if the prose doesn't have its own music, if the… — Laura van den Berg Copy Share Image
Faults in English prose derive not so much from lack of knowledge, intelligence or art as from lack of thought, patience or… — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
“The Grim Reaper isn't grim at all; he's a life-saver. He isn't grim because he isn't anything. . . . he is… — Jack Kerouac Atop an Underwood Early Stories and Other Writings Copy Share Image
The first two books that I did by myself were long stories in verse. I knew I could do that because I'd… — Natalie Babbitt 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
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
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
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 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
“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
