My method is the magpie's: I look for shiny things. That is, I look for concrete material details of daily life, and… — Luc Sante Copy Share Image
Krzhizhanovsky wanted to perform imaginary experiments with the nature of time and space. Outside, in the streets, the Communist state was busy… — Adam Thirlwell Copy Share Image
As a writer, I'm not just competing with other prose writers, I'm competing with TV. So I think a lot about the… — Torrey Peters Copy Share Image
Edwidge Danticat's prose has a Chekhovian simplicity--an ability to state the most urgent truths in a measured and patiently plain style that… — Madison Smartt Bell Copy Share Image
The borderline between prose and poetry is one of those fog-shrouded literary minefields where the wary explorer gets blown to bits before… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
[Science fiction is] that class of prose narrative treating of a situation that could not arise in the world we know, but… — Kingsley Amis Copy Share Image
“They're waiting for you to say all these grand statements, you know? You march across the room and you're supposed to say… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
The way something looks or sounds is also what it means. Words as visual and aural phenomena, which mainly poets, not critics… — Masha Tupitsyn Copy Share Image
Fiction isn't made by scraping the bones of topicality for the last shreds and sinews, to be processed into mechanically recovered prose.… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
As a blogger, Chez Pazienza is filled with outrage, passion and insight -- delivered with a distinctive point of view, a wicked… — Arianna Huffington Copy Share Image
“There are very few friends that will lie down with you on empty streets in the middle of the night, without a… — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share Image
I think when you're writing prose there's a lot of attendant description and that's were I used to really go bananas. With… — Diablo Cody Copy Share Image
Lately, I've been thinking about the difference between poetry and prose, and as I've experienced it, poetry is insistent. It allows for… — Tracy K. Smith Copy Share Image
What line breaks add to prose prosody is a connection between eye and ear which emphasizes the nature of the language by… — Diane Wakoski Copy Share Image
The Watch is a powerful tale, courageous both in concept and creation: an ancient tale made modern, passed through different narrators in… — Aminatta Forna Copy Share Image
What I desire of a poem is a clear understanding of motive, and a just evaluation of feeling A poem in the… — Yvor Winters Copy Share Image
In almost every book I've written, there is a reference to a movie - legendary films, actors and actresses, and forgotten made-for-TV… — Denise Duhamel Copy Share Image
Herein find fiction full of whimsy, wit, hurt, and terror. Wicked, as in wickedly funny, is in the mix, too, along with… — Christine Schutt Copy Share Image
Speech and prose are not the same thing. They have different wave-lengths, for speech moves at the speed of light, where prose… — James Kenneth Stephen Copy Share Image
I really - I don't take my work that seriously, and I think that's what keeps me loose. If I try to… — Elmore Leonard Copy Share Image
I've been working on a collection of prose vignettes about girls I've had crushes on, from the age of six to the… — Ron Padgett 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
OF writing many books there is no end; And I who have written much in prose and verse For others' uses, will… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning Copy Share Image
“Through a story that delineates the power of words to obfuscate, exploit, and distort human reality, Henry James offers his own nuanced,… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
For me, prose is never a poem. Because with prose there are so very few tools to create the music. And one… — Pattiann Rogers Copy Share Image
“It was quite a beautiful thing, the way we simply just came to be, with no effort or trying and slowly we… — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share Image
“Moments later, I was climbing nervously into the back of the car. The driver wore the archetypal expression of an antagonist. No… — Agnes Chew Copy Share Image
Most writers sow adjectives almost unconsciously into the soil of their prose to make it more lush and pretty. The sentences become… — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
Well, I kind of approach both of them similarly in (that) I always see it as a movie first because that's my… — Michael Landon, Jr Copy Share Image
“The range of rhythms in prose is larger and grander than it is in poetry, and it can handle discursive ideas and… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
With engaging prose, Engelman takes readers on a delightful journey?that both entertains and educates ? of modern civilization and women's central role… — Geeta Rao Gupta Copy Share Image
“...prose unfolds in time; and time contains both obstacles and revelations. Prose develops, the way characters and situations do. It requires a… — Molly Peacock Copy Share Image
Each time I undertake to reread Virginia Woolf, I am somewhat baffled by the signature breathlessness and relentlessly "poetic" tone, the shimmering… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
“To Scottie July 18, 1940 p.454 The prose talent depends on other factors- assimilation of material and careful selection of it, or… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
I approach writing a poem in a much different state than when I am writing prose. It's almost as if I were… — Pattiann Rogers Copy Share Image
Prose-it might be speculated-is discourse; poetry ellipsis. Prose is spoken aloud; poetry overheard. The one is presumably articulate and social, a shared… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
All my editors since Malcolm Cowley have had instructions to leave my prose exactly as I wrote it. In the days of… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
Poetry teaches us things that cannot be learned in prose, such as certain kinds of irony or the importance of the unsaid.… — Sam Hamill Copy Share Image
An aphorism is a synthesis of poetry and prose, it is a narrative precipitate, a didactic parable, an ideological concept, in practice… — William C. Brown Copy Share Image
Lehman uses many conveyances—including the prose poem, the sestina, and curt rhymes—to travel across the writing life of a poet whose instinctive… — Ken Tucker Copy Share Image
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