Prose Quotes

473 Prose quotes by 367 unique authors

Men will forgive a man anything except bad prose. — Winston Churchill
The poet in prose or verse - the creator - can only stamp his images forcibly on the page in proportion as he has forcibly… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
In our fine arts, not imitation, but creation is the aim... The details, the prose of nature, he should omit, and give us only the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The four great motives for writing prose are sheer egoism, esthetic enthusiasm, historical impulse, and political purpose. — George Orwell
For me, poetry is an evasion of the real job of writing prose. — Sylvia Plath
Why do you always write poetry? Why do you not write prose? Prose is so much more difficult. — Walter Pater
Who all in raptures their own works rehearse, And drawl out measur'd prose, which they call verse. — Charles Churchill
All I want is a modest place in Mr X's Good Reading, Miss Y's Good Writing, and that new edition of One Thousand Best Bits… — James Agate
The language of prose is very different than the language of cinema, so the movie has to successfully translate what was in the book. — Yann Martel
Prose is like a window; fiction is like a door. But it is not uncommon that he who should come in through the door jumps… — Mu Xin
[Among the books he chooses, a statesman] ought to read interesting books on history and government, and books of science and philosophy; and really good… — Theodore Roosevelt
. . . you [film critics] always overstress the value of images. You judge films in the first place by their visual impact instead of… — Orson Welles
I dwell in Possibility A fairer house than Prose More numerous of Windows Superior — for Doors. — Emily Dickinson
A cliché is dead matter. It causes gangrene in the prose around it, and sooner or later it eats your brain, — Verlyn Klinkenborg
With Wings of the Butterfly, John Urbancik infuses his tale of shapeshifters, romance and pack rivalry with some unexpected and welcome surprises. Fluid prose, gore… — Kealan Patrick Burke
Michael Bohn provides a rare opportunity to experience the American sporting scene in the Roaring Twenties. A constant stream of legendary characters marches across these… — Peter Golenbock
What is important-what lasts-in another language is not what is said but what is written. For the essence of an age, we look to its… — Peter Brodie
Nima Shirazi's is an important progressive voice in the Iran debate in the West, often deconstructing the myths (and sometimes propaganda) we commonly encounter in… — Hooman Majd
Disgrace is a subtle, multi-layered story, as much concerned with politics as it is with the itch of male flesh. Coetzee's prose is chaste and… — Paul Bailey
I never even considered writing a career option. I just liked the play of words. I was certainly interested in story, but the stories I… — Charles de Lint
Instead of creating aesthetically pleasing prose, you have to dig into a product or service, uncover the reasons why consumers would want to buy the… — Robert W. Bly
What is wonderful about a university like LSE is that you not only receive teaching of very high quality, you also learn where to find… — Pierre Trudeau
A lot of artists use memories. A lot of prose writers, a lot of poets, a lot of songwriters, refer back to something. Generally it's… — Paul McCartney
Because, if one is writing novels today, concentrating on the beauty of the prose is right up there with concentrating on your semi-colons, for wasted… — Neil Gaiman
Mediocrity is now, as formerly, dangerous, commonly fatal, to the poet; but among even the successful writers of prose, those who rise sensibly above it… — William E. Gladstone

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