Prose Quotes · Page 3

I like the way the prose and poetry interact.

— Rachel Zucker

I want my prose to be as clear as a pane of glass.

— Tracy Kidder

I'd always been really intimidated by prose writing.

— David Rees

A page of good prose remains invincible.

— John Cheever

“Forever encased in the amber of a writer's prose.”

— Robert Galbraith

Poetry is prose, bent out of shape.

— J. Patrick Lewis

I'm a better polemicist in prose.

— Ted Rall

In true prose everything must be underlined.

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

It was not till toward the end of the thirteenth century that the prose romances began to appear.

— Thomas Bulfinch

From the reader's view, a poem is more demanding than prose.

— Mark Strand

When I write after dark", observed Cyril Connolly, "the shades of evening scatter their purple through my prose

— Anne Fadiman

There IS a difference between poetry and prose! Poems should be sonically charged and new to the ear.

— Cate Marvin

I prefer my prose evocative rather than simply effective, with a bit of poetry to it.

— Gemma Files

Why do you always write poetry? Why do you not write prose? Prose is so much more difficult.

— Walter Pater

“What is this thing? trading passions for a tiny bit of acceptance.”

— Charlotte Eriksson

The poetic prose that most interests me is that of Henri Michaux.

— Franz Wright

Art, whatever form it takes, requires hard work, craftsmanship and creativity. As a writer, I know my grammar, cadence, the music of…

— F. Sionil Jose

I really don't have a lot in common with the people who attend the Comic Con. It's like assuming that all people…

— Harvey Pekar

Hundreds of butterflies flitted in and out of sight like short-lived punctuation marks in a stream of consciousness without beginning or end.

— Haruki Murakami

“Prose consists less and less of words chosen for the sake of their meaning, and more and more of phrases tacked together…

— George Orwell

The lines of poetry, the period of prose, and even the texts of Scripture most frequently recollected and quoted, are those which…

— William Shenstone

[Louis] Brandeis improves the prose. He simplifies it and perfects the balance of the sentence so it becomes even more memorable and…

— Jeffrey Rosen

I want the concentration and the romance, and the worlds all glued together, fused, glowing: have no time to waste any more…

— Virginia Woolf

My husband makes fun of me, because I know I can use strong prose to jazz-hand my way through plot that isn't…

— Kelly Sue DeConnick

“My prose was clunky compared to his. I got hung up on diction and syntax; I agonized over every word. Matt's prose…

— M. Pierce

At some point, sitting in the school library, during reading period, I looked up from my leopard print hardcover composition notebook where…

— Vera Nazarian

Writing for publication is an art, a craft, and a business, so you need to develop skill sets in multiple areas. You…

— Brian Hodge

But every great scripture, whether Hebrew, Indian, Persian, or Chinese, apart from its religious value will be found to have some rare…

— Lafcadio Hearn

If you read only the best, you will have no need of reading the other books, because the latter are nothing but…

— Anna Brackett

Somehow, the words don't have any vitality, any life to them, unless I can feel it marking on a paper. That's how…

— Simon Schama

She would only point out the salvation that was latent in his own soul, and in the soul of every man. Only…

— E. M. Forster

Certainly I'm participating in an already established and awesome tradition, but it's a tradition that sort of shoots up and through the…

— Lidia Yuknavitch

“My prose can be dense. I love to pile on detail. I love to describe. I’m much more reluctant to give the…

— Anthony Doerr

The difference between prose logic and poetic thought is simple. The logician uses words as a builder uses bricks, for the unemotional…

— Robert Graves

I complain a lot. That's one way of coping. But I'm in a profession where nobody tells you to quit. No board…

— John Updike

“Like God, you hover above the page staring down on a small town. Outside a window some scenery loafs in a sleepy…

— Lynn Emanuel

“And I do. I do wonder, I think about it all the time. What it would be like to kill myself. Because…

— Tahereh Mafi

If you know that everything comes from the mind, don't become attached. Once attached, you're unaware. But once you see your own…

— Bodhidharma

Italian is a very different poetic situation and there are these hard and fast rhythmic periods, settenari, ottonari of seven and eight…

— Jonathan W. Galassi

Cartooning is completely different from other media: it is closely related to film and prose, other narrative forms, but the skills needed…

— Jessica Abel