The Postmodernists' tyranny wears people down by boredom and semi-literate prose. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
(...) the translator of prose is the slave of the author and the translator of poetry is his rival. — Andreï Makine Copy Share Image
Writers acquire their technique by spotting, savoring, and reverse-engineering examples of good prose. — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
“Remember, life is a bit tough most of the time. Also remember, if it was easy it would be boring.” — Akash Lakhotia Copy Share Image
One of the most important differences I see between prose and poetry is the music of the language. — Pattiann Rogers Copy Share Image
“I was no longer able to hear the music that issues from a decent piece of prose.” — Carlos Ruiz Zafón Copy Share Image
Occasionally I find a travel book that is both illuminating and entertaining, where vivid writing and research replace self-indulgence and sloppy prose. — Arthur Smith Copy Share Image
Prose is in fact the museum where the dead images of verse are preserved. In 'Notes', prose is 'a museum where all… — T. E. Hulme Copy Share Image
Growing up in Malaysia and England, there wasn't an obvious route into the comics world, so my creative energy went into theatre… — Arvind Ethan David Copy Share Image
There's a half-conscious state you enter when you're actually generating prose, and you are simply a better writer in that place. In… — John Jeremiah Sullivan Copy Share Image
I believe the novella is the perfect form of prose fiction. It is the beautiful daughter of a rambling, bloated ill-shaven giant… — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
I think there's something quite interesting about the almost tragic quality of a lot of overwrought prose, because it has a much… — China Mieville Copy Share Image
“Closer, it’s all right. Touch the man of grief. Do. Don’t be afraid. My troubles are mine and I am the only… — Sophocles Copy Share Image
Educationists are entertaining. We can always find a good laugh in their prose, with its special, ludicrous combination of ignorance and pretentiousness. — Richard Mitchell Copy Share Image
Everything in art depends on execution: the story of a louse can be as beautiful as the story of Alexander. You must… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
Revision is not the end of the creative process, but a new beginning. It's a chance not just to clean up and… — John Dufresne Copy Share Image
Russell's prose has been compared by T.S. Eliot to that of David Hume's. I would rank it higher, for it had more… — Sidney Hook Copy Share Image
For me a page of good prose is where one hears the rain. A page of good prose is when one hears… — John Cheever Copy Share Image
One of the best known, and one of the least intelligible, facts of literary history is the lateness, in Western European Literature… — George Saintsbury Copy Share Image
There must be a connection between the lust for power and impotentia coeundi. I liked Marx, I was sure that he and… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
Arnold Rampersad's stunningly revealing biography has, at long last, unveiled-in magisterial prose-the very complex and vulnerable man behind Ralph Ellison's own masks… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
The richly cadenced prose is hypnotic, the research prodigious, the analysis acute, the mood spellbinding, and the cast of characters mythic in… — Ron Chernow Copy Share Image
“Poems, even when narrative, do not resemble stories. All stories are about battles, of one kind or another, which end in victory… — John Berger Copy Share Image
Once in a rare while, you get to read a story of such breathtaking beauty and intelligence that you remember why you… — Robin Oliveira 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
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
As I glanced at the phraseology of the research report, dull and unfathomable to outsiders like me, I thought that if you… — Jon Ronson 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
“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
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 have to say from the outset that not all prose can be transferred to the screen. — Andrei Tarkovsky Copy Share Image
Most of my writing consists of an attempt to translate aphorisms into continuous prose. — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
