“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
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
And I was troubled by the heavy-handed prose of so much psychoanalytic writing, which seemed drowned in its own concepts. — Robert Jay Lifton Copy Share Image
I'd say the music influences the writing - the music and rhythm of the prose - much more than the writing influences… — Rob Roberge Copy Share Image
People and places are the source of my work, both in prose and verse-and this remark is not the truism it seems,… — Leonard Alfred George Strong 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
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
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
It is perfectly legitimate to write novels which are essentially prose poems, but in the end, I think, a novel is like… — Robert Harris Copy Share Image
Nothing is more satisfying than to write a good sentence. It is no fun to write lumpishly, dully, in prose the reader… — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
“...she ventured to recommend a larger allowance of prose in his daily study; and on being requested to particularise, mentioned such works… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
In rich and captivating prose, Jessica DuLong kindly invites the rest of us on the journey of her lifetime: from a dot-com… — Jon Meacham Copy Share Image
The hardest thing to do is to write straight honest prose on human beings. First you have to know the subject; then… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Steve Forman strafes the south Florida scene with Boca Knights, an outrageously funny mystery novel with a raft of offbeat characters and… — Douglas Preston Copy Share Image
Futurists are already predicting the day mankind builds its replacement, Artificial Intelligence. Daniel Wilson shows what might happen when that computer realizes… — Jack Du Brul Copy Share Image
To my mind, Death in Venice represents an enormous advance in Mann's literary development, not simply for the commonly appreciated reason that… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
“Feelings and emotion ran through my veins like a hurricane. And that's when everything began to look like poetry. —You look like… — Altruistic Copy Share Image
The process of composition, messing around with paragraphs and trying to make really good prose, is hardwired into my personality. — Rick Moody Copy Share Image
It is also true that one can write nothing readable unless one constantly struggles to efface one's own personality. Good prose is… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Read a lot - poems, prose, stories, newspapers, anything. Read books and poems that you think you will like and some that… — Michael Morpurgo 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
I've seen plays that are, objectively, total messes that move me in ways that their tidier brethren do not. That's the romantic… — Ben Brantley Copy Share Image
I love the necessary ambiguity of short stories - there simply isn't time to render every detail, so much of the story… — Matthew Healy Copy Share Image
“When he asks you why you chose alone all these years. Tell him that it’s because you love with all claws and… — Danabelle Gutierrez Copy Share Image
The advent of the internet has made so many things possible. Self- published recreational journalism has always been around; but back when… — Teresa Nielsen Hayden Copy Share Image
Not to make him blush, but any story illustrated by Mike Mignola does things that prose alone can't accomplish. The illustrations create… — Christopher Golden Copy Share Image
“To want to give to prose the rhythm of verse (but keeping it very much prose), and to want to write about… — Gustav Flaubert Copy Share Image
To design is much more than simply to assemble, to order, or even to edit: it is to add value and meaning,… — Paul Rand Copy Share Image
There's something paralyzing about being a writer that you have to escape. I don't want to think of myself as a guy… — Nicholson Baker Copy Share Image
Once again...Rick Bass draws us into his magical human worlds, rendered urgently by a hypnotic prose that tracks a parallel and untamed… — Doug Peacock Copy Share Image
“I dwell in Possibility— A fairer House than Prose— More numerous of Windows— Superior—for Doors— Of Chambers as the Cedars— Impregnable of… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
I fantasised about F. Scott Fitzgerald's 'The Great Gatsby' - I loved it, and then I read everything J. D. Salinger had… — Garrett Hedlund Copy Share Image
“There were these things and the flames ate these things, and since fire doesn't distinguish between the word of God and the… — Anthony Marra Copy Share Image
“He looked like a thing broken loose from a bedtime story, something unreal ... The giant watched her from above with a… — R.J. Lawrence Copy Share Image
A pop song is a condensed version of a life in three minutes, whereas, when you go to write your prose, you… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
“Write down what your reader needs, no more, no less. Reading should be textured, but not obscure. Henry James could make an… — Christopher T. Garry Copy Share Image
It's funny, because in deference to conventional wisdom, I spent my struggling writer years trying to suppress my naturally baroque literary voice… — Jacqueline Carey Copy Share Image
Whether I'm writing scripts or prose, the goal is identical. To give pleasure. Now whether I succeed or not is up for… — Jonathan Ames Copy Share Image
There are few greater treasures to be acquired in youth than great poetry-and prose-stored in the memory. At the time one may… — Richard Livingstone Copy Share Image
Nicole Baart has written a novel that satisfies on every level. Sleeping In Eden is a compelling mystery, a tragic love story,… — William Kent Krueger Copy Share Image
