Susan Campbell has brought Isabella's fascinating forgotten story back to life with the deep research of a born historian and the vibrant… — Debby Applegate Copy Share Image
Poetry is more than a form of art. It's a vibration and a pulsing heart. Whether it's sour or whether it's sweet.… — Stanley Victor Paskavich Copy Share Image
If you were going to make sculptures of them, the swivel poems would be disparate objects all attached with hinges and the… — Matthea Harvey Copy Share Image
“The city they are building asks you to stay; remind yourself what is worth keeping, while the lighthouse of your moan warns… — Mikl Paul Copy Share Image
George Moore unexpectedly pinched my behind. I felt rather honored that my behind should have drawn the attention of the great master… — Ilka Chase Copy Share Image
The decision to write in prose instead of poetry is made more by the readers than by writers. Almost no one is… — Robert Morgan Copy Share Image
I don't suppose a writing man ever really gets rid of his old crocus-yellow neckties. Sooner or later, I think, they show… — J. D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“Decades from now, my grandchild is going to be a poet... And she's going to write about how she's a living testament… — Danabelle Gutierrez Copy Share Image
The richly cadenced prose is hypnotic, the research prodigious, the analysis acute, the mood spellbinding, and the cast of characters mythic in… — Ron Chernow Copy Share Image
“Many times when I read a book, I want to savor each word, each phrase, each page, loving the prose so much,… — Lisa Schroeder Copy Share Image
“I used to be fine in my loneliness but something or someone snapped me out of it and showed me company. What… — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share Image
To write? Because all this is going to vanish. The only thing left will be the prose and poems, the books, what… — James Salter Copy Share Image
Heather A. Slomski's stories are downright addictive. I kept promising myself to turn off the light after just one more, and then… — Sarah Shun-lien Bynum Copy Share Image
Comedy is like fictional charm. It's the charm of fiction. Or the charisma of fiction. When you meet somebody who's immediately charismatic,… — Joshua Ferris Copy Share Image
If Montaigne is a man in the prime of life sitting in his study on a warm morning and putting down the… — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
I think that as poets, we can get away with stuff because we can ride on the melt of metaphor. We cover… — David Biespiel Copy Share Image
“It’s like you’re a book I’ve read a thousand time without ever picking up. Your prose that effortlessly falls off my tongue… — Sarah Noffke Copy Share Image
“She would not have cared to confess how infinitely she preferred the exactitude, the star-like impersonality, of figures to the confusion, agitation,… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
I don't run away from the idea of philosophy as seductive. I want the sentences to be prose but intense prose, to… — Stanley Cavell Copy Share Image
Most clear writing is a sign that there is no exploration going on. Clear prose indicates the absence of thought. — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
I wanted to be a writer. I still want to be a prose writer. I feel I am more temperamentally suited to… — Juliana Hatfield Copy Share Image
the more humdrum aspects of life do not make for gripping reading. To render them compelling, a writer must describe the universal… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
You can put things in prose and understand them one way, and then there's understanding it by knowing how it feels. Things… — Rege-Jean Page Copy Share Image
With everything I've done from "Jackie Brown" on, I got really into really writing more prose in the - in what you're… — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share Image
The stories I respect most aren't those with the rich, dense prose, but those which achieve a rich, deep effect with simple… — Stephen Graham Jones Copy Share Image
For all that has been said of the love that certain natures (on shore) have professed for it, for all the celebrations… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
James Baldwin had an unrivaled understanding of politics and history and, above all, the human condition. His prose is laser sharp. His… — Raoul Peck Copy Share Image
Poetry, I thought then, and still do, is a matter of space on the page interrupted by a few well-chosen words, to… — Fay Weldon Copy Share Image
“What you want is practice, practice, practice. It doesn’t matter what we write … so long as we write continually as well… — Patricia Goodson Copy Share Image
Both in verse and in prose [Karl] Shapiro loves, partly out of indignation and partly out of sheer mischievousness, to tell the… — Randall Jarrell Copy Share Image
Bored with obvious reality, I find my fascination in transforming it into a subjective point of view. Without touching my subject I… — Ernst Haas Copy Share Image
My poems and prose are not often in direct conversation with each other, but there's so much crossover - everything that comes… — Alex Lemon Copy Share Image
“...guided the sentence that was drawing to an end towards that which was waiting to begin, now hastening, now slackening the pace… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“Sometimes the universe works in a really weird way. You hate the people who love you, and you love the people who… — Altruistic Copy Share Image
Music can be a distraction and an escape. Sometimes a welcome escape. You need it. But music can also serve a very… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
There is a certain standard of grace and beauty which consists in a certain relation between our nature, such as it is,… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Inexperienced fiction and creative nonfiction writers are often told to show, not tell - to write scenes, dramatize, cut exposition, cut summary… — Laurie Alberts Copy Share Image
The lucidity of the battle narratives, the vigor of the prose, the strong feeling for the men from generals to privates who… — Walter Millis Copy Share Image
Theatre aside, my penchant for the extended monologue began with my reading of Browning's dramatic monologues, in high school. My inclination to… — Norman Lock Copy Share Image
Poetry is creative expression; Prose is constructive expression... by creative I mean original. In Poetry the words are born or reborn in… — Herbert Read Copy Share Image
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