Nima Shirazi's is an important progressive voice in the Iran debate in the West, often deconstructing the myths (and sometimes propaganda) we… — Hooman Majd Copy Share Image
Much modern prose is praised for its terseness, its scrupulous avoidance of curlicue, etcetera. But I don't feel the deeper rhythm there.… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
Instead of creating aesthetically pleasing prose, you have to dig into a product or service, uncover the reasons why consumers would want… — Robert W. Bly Copy Share Image
The word 'creative' refers simply to the use of literary craft in presenting nonfiction—that is, factually accurate prose about real people and… — Lee Gutkind Copy Share Image
“I would really like to have had the guts and the energy and so on to be able to write about, you… — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
What you want is practice, practice, practice. It doesn’t matter what we write (at least this is my view) at our age,… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The definition of good prose is proper words in their proper places; of good verse, the most proper words in their proper… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Who among us has not dreamt, in moments of ambition, of the miracle of a poetic prose, musical without rhythm and rhyme,… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
Merrie Destefano storms the world of urban fantasy with AFTERLIFE, breathing new life into the vast genre of the undead. Gritty, poignant,… — Tosca Lee Copy Share Image
It is not brilliance or facility that is necessary, but the determination to bear and even enjoy the dull process of wading… — Stewart O'Nan Copy Share Image
I wish my prose to be transparentI don't want the reader to stumble over me; I want him to look through what… — V. S. Naipaul Copy Share Image
Even in a crowded field, it is a rare pleasure to come across a prose stylist like Kellie Wells, whose intellect and… — Jaimy Gordon Copy Share Image
David Foster Wallace was a brilliant experimentalist who I deeply admire. His ability to do formalism helped me understand how to tackle… — Alexander Weinstein Copy Share Image
See how weak prose is… Presently I shall go to a bar and there one or two poets will speak to me… — Jack Spicer Copy Share Image
I think readers are always patient. Look at the 'Harry Potter' series. Some have given up on this generation of kids as… — Dave Gibbons Copy Share Image
My sole inspiration is a telephone call from a director. ... (when asked who wrote 'Some Enchanted Evening') Rodgers and Hammerstein, if… — Cole Porter Copy Share Image
“Niko? I have decided to christen this little pool Le Cagot's Soul." "Oh?" "Yes. Because it is clear and pure and lucid."… — Trevanian Copy Share Image
I'm primarily a poet, so I'd have to say in my case I'd investigate the mystery in poetry in a different way… — Pattiann Rogers Copy Share Image
“It's too short,' she said, 'ever so much too short.' Never did anybody look so sad. Bitter and black, half-way down, in… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
The Hours is in fact a lovely triumph. Cunningham honors both Mrs. Dalloway and its creator with unerring sensitivity, thanks to his… — Gail Caldwell Copy Share Image
In all my work, in the movies I write, the lyrics, the poetry, the prose, the essays, I am saying that we… — Maya Angelou 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
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
Yet poetry, though the last and finest result, is a natural fruit. As naturally as the oak bears an acorn, and the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Poetry is not the proper antithesis to prose, but to science. Poetry is opposed to science, and prose to meter. The proper… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Disgrace is a subtle, multi-layered story, as much concerned with politics as it is with the itch of male flesh. Coetzee's prose… — Paul Bailey 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
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
“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
“...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
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
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
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
Who dreamt and made incarnate gaps in Time & Space through images juxtaposed, and trapped the archangel of the soul between 2… — Allen Ginsberg Copy Share Image
The very term "turning pages" suggests nonstop action. But I am all about character and beautiful writing. I eat that up like… — Elizabeth Wein Copy Share Image
There [DreamTigers by Jorge Luis Borges] were these little fablesque things, you know, dream tigers, beautiful, beautiful pieces that when you read… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
Any man who can write a page of living prose adds something to our life, and the man who can, as I… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
I can see that "reap" and "deep," "prayers" and "bears," . . . do rhyme, and so I suppose it is a… — Susan B. Anthony Copy Share Image
Eva Stachniak has given readers a thrilling glimpse into the scandals and secrets at the heart of the Russian Imperial court. With… — Deanna Raybourn Copy Share Image
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