Prose Quote by Anonymous Download Open image “Rich, ornate prose is hard to digest, generally unwholesome, and sometimes nauseating.” — Anonymous ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.4 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Prose Rich Sometimes Writing
I think of being ornate as a Victorian quality, little to do with Shakespeare. But even Dickens wasn't ornate; he wrote with flow and… — Christopher Plummer Copy Share Image
I found it incredibly challenging to write clear prose that had the dynamism that I wanted. — Alex Lemon Copy Share Image
Good style in prose is always hostage to the precision, speed, and laconic intensity of poetic diction. — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
I have always tended toward a lush prose style, but I take care to modulate it from story to story and to strip it… — Jeff VanderMeer Copy Share Image
The best style of writing, as well as the most forcible, is the plainest. — Horace Greeley Copy Share Image
Good writing is deceptive in that it hides its own artifice - it makes it seem easy. — Michael Arndt Copy Share Image
It is also true that one can write nothing readable unless one constantly struggles to efface one's own personality. Good prose is like a… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Nothing is more satisfying than to write a good sentence. It is no fun to write lumpishly, dully, in prose the reader must plod… — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
I am not a great fan of serious, heavy writing. I prefer simple, short sentences, light on prose. — Ravi Subramanian Copy Share Image
Our admiration of fine writing will always be in proportion to its real difficulty and its apparent ease. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
And a tear rolled down her cheek, as she said goodbye; because she's walking away, and she's never looking back — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You'll seldom experience regret for anything that you've done. It is what you haven't done that will torment you. The message, therefore, is clear.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Scrabble - The game is available in Braille. That’s a nice fact. This makes me feel better about humanity for some reason. I can’t… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“THIS tale of my sore-troubled life I write, To thank the God of nature, who conveyed My soul to me, and with such care… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Put on my J's and dance the whole night away Im naughty by nature like Im hip-hop hooray With my hands in the sky,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Me.. I have been through a lot, but I still manage to have a smile on my face. Im not worried about the past… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The only person I've ever purposely caused pain here is myself...By simply sharing, caring too much. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Histories never conclude; they just pause their prose. Their stories are, if they are truthful, untidy affairs, resistant to windings-up and sortings-out. They beat… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
The poetry from the eighteenth century was prose; the prose from the seventeenth century was poetry. — David Hare Copy Share Image
The aim of good prose words is to mean what they say. The aim of good poetical words is to mean what they do… — Gilbert K. Chesterton 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: "Only with… — William Congreve Copy Share Image
“Don’t be afraid of your struggles, they are making you dangerously strong and wise. They are preparing you for your superpowers. Let them happen,… — Melody Lee Copy Share Image
Many people become bankrupt through having invested too heavily in the prose of life. To have ruined one's self over poetry is an honor. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Prose is when all the lines except the last go on to the end. Poetry is when some of them fall short of it. — Jeremy Bentham Copy Share Image
When you finish a poem, it clicks shut like the top of a jewel box, but prose is endless. I haven't experienced an awful… — Kenneth Koch Copy Share Image
To design is much more than simply to assemble, to order, or even to edit: it is to add value and meaning, to illuminate,… — Paul Rand 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 scale. I… — Ron Chernow Copy Share Image
when a poem says something that could not have been said in any other way, in music, prose, sculpture, movement or paint, then it… — Sybil Marshall Copy Share Image
My husband makes fun of me, because I know I can use strong prose to jazz-hand my way through plot that isn't as interesting… — Kelly Sue DeConnick Copy Share Image
