“Unlike Gatsby and Tom Buchanan I had no girl whose disembodied face floated along the dark cornices and blinding signs and so… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
The best memoirs - like This Boy's Life, or Crazy Brave [by Joy Harjo], for instance - bring you through a private… — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share Image
“He left the next morning, searching for a city with light that reminded him of me. He would mail me empty envelopes… — Mikl Paul Copy Share Image
In my personal and spiritual life, I reject that. I don't believe in that. I'm always trying to get my mind into… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
[Tom] Wolfe's books offered a whole new world to step into, and whilst at times you could accuse him of being somewhat… — Jude Law Copy Share Image
MORE CONSISTENTLY THAN EVER I WAS TRYING TO MAKE PEOPLE BELIEVE THAT CINEMA AS AN INSTRUMENT OF ART HAS ITS OWN POSSIBILITIES… — Andrei Tarkovsky Copy Share Image
If prose can cast a spell, we will listen to it no matter what it's saying. If a narrative uses language in… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
French is not a language that lends itself naturally to the opaque and ponderous idiom of nature-philosophy, and Teilhard has according resorted… — Peter Medawar Copy Share Image
Unlike prose writing, the strange process of writing with pictures encourages associations and recollections to accumulate literally in front of your eyes;… — Chris Ware Copy Share Image
As if channeling Robbe-Grillet, who strove to establish 'new relations between man and the world,' Sesshu Foster's electrifying prose poems tenderly examine… — Wanda Coleman Copy Share Image
“I believe you can consider yourself a successful prose writer when the number of words you put on a page each day… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
Now Dave Eggers, if you lived in San Francisco, is not an easy person to be done with. Everyone - and by… — James Bernard Frost Copy Share Image
Henry James's later works would have been better had he resisted that curious sort of self-indulgence, dictating to a secretary. The roaming… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
I would say that the writers I like and trust have at the base of their prose something called the English sentence.… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
I could stifle my voice, or strip it. I know that I could, because we can do anything we put our minds… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
I think of my success as a kind of fluke. How else could I possibly think of it? And although it's a… — Ayana Mathis Copy Share Image
“You’re lonely,” they say, but it doesn’t scare me anymore for it teaches me, and maybe that’s the biggest win from these… — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share Image
The academic bias against subjectivity not only forces our students to write poorly ("It is believed...," instead of, "I believe..."), it deforms… — Parker J. Palmer Copy Share Image
“I’m a man of music as much as I am a man of words and prose. One could even possibly say that… — Nicholas Trandahl Copy Share Image
Don’t say you were a bit confused and sort of tired and a little depressed and somewhat annoyed. Be tired. Be confused.… — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
In high school, in 1956, at the age of sixteen, we were not taught "creative writing." We were taught literature and grammar.… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“The punter sweated on top of Marina, his lips all over her young body, his tongue slipping out from rows of crooked… — Tom Conrad Copy Share Image
There was no really good true war book during the entire four years of the war. The only true writing that came… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
The one difference between comics and, say, cinema or prose, is that you've only got so many pages, and publishers will work… — Leah Moore Copy Share Image
Harmony of period and melody of style have greater weight than is generally imagined in the judgment we pass upon writing and… — William Shenstone Copy Share Image
[Among the books he chooses, a statesman] ought to read interesting books on history and government, and books of science and philosophy;… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
In the French language, there is a great gulf between prose and poetry; in English, there is hardly any difference. It is… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
We are herding the young in that direction so that they are not sitting still and contemplating, Goddamn it, a page of… — Frederick Busch Copy Share Image
Prose is not to be read aloud but to oneself alone at night, and it is not quick as poetry but rather… — Henry Green Copy Share Image
With impeccable prose, dry wit, and uncommon wisdom, Ted Thompson brings to life one family's painful disappointments and powerful resilience. The Land… — Maggie Shipstead Copy Share Image
All Art is a gift of the Holy Spirit. When this light shines through the mind of a musician, it manifests itself… — Abdu'l-Bahá Copy Share Image
What a lumbering poor vehicle prose is for the conveying of a great thought! ... Prose wanders around with a lantern &… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“There's an old saying that great writing is simple but not easy, and so it is. The search for that one plain… — William Souder Copy Share Image
“The prose can be brutally beautiful. But the semester starts, you fall in love, get deflowered, watch Kennedy die and the Beatles… — Richard Powers Copy Share Image
Prose is something that is persistent in staying in one place long enough to not only zero in on the dramatic effect… — Tracy K. Smith Copy Share Image
When I was in college I started writing prose, because a very smart professor asked me what I like to read and… — Melissa Febos Copy Share Image
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![“[Tom] Wolfe's books offered a whole new world to step into, and whilst at times you could accuse him of being somewhat long-winded, he had an incredible quality of prose and a bravery of writing from the heart. He believed in being autobiographical at all times.” quote by Jude Law](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/740/jude-law-8582_all-time_tom-wolfe-s-books-offered-a-whole-new-wo_2759553.jpg)
![“[Among the books he chooses, a statesman] ought to read interesting books on history and government, and books of science and philosophy; and really good books on these subjects are as enthralling as any fiction ever written in prose or verse.” quote by Theodore Roosevelt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/59a/theodore-roosevelt-218_accounts_among-the-books-he-chooses-a-statesman-o_884635.jpg)
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