I think graphic novels are closer to prose than film, which is a really different form. — Denise Mina Copy Share Image
“Marriage is a book in which the first chapter is written in poetry and the remaining chapters in prose.” — Beverley Nichols Copy Share Image
Poetry is a beautiful way of spoiling prose, and the laborious art of exchanging plain sense for harmony. — Horace Walpole Copy Share Image
Cormac McCarthy's language is perfect. He is in my view the greatest living American prose stylist. — Tommy Lee Jones Copy Share Image
“Certainly, reading Post-Structuralist prose is a form of work, like jogging with a nail in your shoe.” — Hugh Kenner Copy Share Image
I am a poet who composes what life proses, and who proses what life composes. — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
Writing a poem is a more personal experience, I think, than writing prose. And perhaps reading a poem is a more personal… — Nick Laird Copy Share Image
A short story is "a short prose narrative, requiring from a half hour, to one or two hours in its perusal...having conceived,… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
He can develop sense and style, in the manner of distinguished modern prose, in which event he may be sure that the… — John Crowe Ransom Copy Share Image
I'm a failed poet. Reading poetry helps me to see the world differently, and I try to infuse my prose with figurative… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
Mr Witwould: "Pray, madam, do you pin up your hair with all your letters? I find I must keep copies." Mrs Millamant:… — William Congreve Copy Share Image
Prose is admittedly an art rooted in social intercourse, and a fiction writer is faster to find a common denominator with his… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
Prose exists to convey meaning, and no meaning such as prose conveys can be expressed as well in poetry. That's not poetry's… — Basil Bunting Copy Share Image
Prose pretends to be straightforward in its application to the truth, but truth itself is a dissembler. Poetry, much more honest, knows… — Laurence Overmire 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
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
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
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
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
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
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 only way to increase it is to cultivate your own garden. And the only thing that will help you is poetry,… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Printed prose is historically a most peculiar, almost an aberrant way of telling stories, and by far the most inherently anesthetic: It… — John Barth Copy Share Image
“One may, in a case of exigency, introduce the reader in to a nuptial chamber, not into a virginal chamber. Verse would… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
I believe he loved a lot of things about me, yet was afraid to accept. He said he never ended it because… — Dominic Riccitello Copy Share Image
“I wish life could be edited as deftly as prose. It would be nice to go back and write a better story,… — Sue Grafton Copy Share Image
I'm often a little perplexed, when I read a review of a book, by the quotes that are pulled out as evidence… — Katie Kitamura Copy Share Image
My Family and Other Saints echoes Gerald Durrell's classic memoir, My Family and Other Animals, not only in its title, but in… — Judith Barrington Copy Share Image
I always was interested in prose. As a teenager, I published short stories. And I always wanted to write the long short… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
“I am, in large measure, the selfsame prose I write. I unroll myself in sentences and paragraphs, I punctuate myself. In my… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
