I do not wish to produce prose that draws attention to itself, rather than the world it describes. — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
“My aim is to place cinema among the other art forms. To put it on a par with music, poetry, prose, etc.” — Andrei Tarkovsky Copy Share Image
Don't scatter your fire! You are a prose writer: stick to your own tool! — Sarah Orne Jewett Copy Share Image
Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
The unit of the poet is the word, the unit of the prose writer is the sentence. — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
And write what you love - don't feel pressured to write serious prose if what you like is to be funny. — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
“a novel can best be defined as a long piece of prose with something wrong with it, and” — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“The city they are building asks you to stay; remind yourself what is worth keeping, while the lighthouse of your moan warns… — Mikl Paul Copy Share Image
A good writer preserves an air of freedom in his prose, so that the reader won't know how a story will end… — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
Buechner is a worthy member of the great prose stylists: Pascal, Newman, and Merton, who have harnessed their art to a passionate… — Louis Auchincloss Copy Share Image
We all often feel like we are pulling teeth, even those writers whose prose ends up being the most natural and fluid.… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
I do love writing prose interspersed with the poetry of other people. Their rhythms break into my prose and create a connection. — Pattiann Rogers Copy Share Image
I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry; that is, prose = words in their… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
The object, Truth, or the satisfaction of the intellect, and the object, Passion, or the excitement of the heart, are, although attainable,… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
No subject is terrible if the story is true, if the prose is clean and honest, and if it affirms courage and… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
I think I was also afraid of the novel. I write line by line, proceeding at snail's pace, rewriting as I go… — Debra Dean Copy Share Image
So much of the effort that goes into writing prose for me is about making sentences that capture the music that I'm… — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
I never even considered writing a career option. I just liked the play of words. I was certainly interested in story, but… — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
The question now becomes about defining your terms. What is literature? Unless we allow it to encompass the oral tradition from which… — David Bennun Copy Share Image
I love a big, character-rich story with a dark heart, with a compelling mystery or some kind of ticking clock at its… — Lisa Unger Copy Share Image
There were several points where I would kind of turn to the book and say, "Get thee behind me." I don't think… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
Probably the best way to describe my writing style is to refer you to "purple prose", which was a tag given to… — Tom Johnson Copy Share Image
I don't use the word lightly, in fact, I don't use it at all, but Ben Marcus is a genius, one of… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
Gene Wolfe is the greatest writer in the English language alive today. Let me repeat that: Gene Wolfe is the greatest writer… — Michael Swanwick Copy Share Image
Despots play their part in the works of thinkers. Fettered words are terrible words. The writer doubles and trebles the power of… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
The strange, wonderful stories of Doctor Olaf van Schuler's Brain introduce us to the tremendously gifted Kirsten Menger-Anderson, a writer whose subject… — Ben Fountain Copy Share Image
“Feelings that would not have disgraced a leader who, now that the snow has begun to fall and the mountain-top is covered… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
...We may encounter many defeats, but we must not be defeated. That sounds goody two-shoes, I know, but I believe that a… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
...Mr. Wodehouse is a prose stylist of such startling talent that Frankie nearly skipped around with glee when she first read some… — E. Lockhart Copy Share Image
Translated literature can be fascinating. There's something so intriguing about reading the text second hand - a piece of prose that has… — Katie Kitamura Copy Share Image
“Then he went into the dining room, consulting his watch. It was ten thirty already. More than half the morning was gone.… — Richard Matheson Copy Share Image
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