Prose Quotes

473 quotes by 367 authors

Those who talk of the bible as a monument of English prose are merely admiring it as a monument over the grave of Christianity. — Thomas Stearns Eliot
The trouble with us in America isn't that the poetry of life has turned to prose, but that it has turned to Advertising copy. — Louis Kronenberger
Eloquence is the poetry of prose. — William C. Bryant
Science and art, or by the same token, poetry and prose differ from one another like a journey and an excursion. The purpose of the… — Franz Grillparzer
Poetry has an indirect way of hinting at things. Poetry is feminine. Prose is masculine. Prose, the very structure of it, is logical; poetry is… — Rajneesh
The only valid reason to use clichÃ©s is in the speech of a character. Cliches are indications of sloppy writing. The writer does not respect… — Leonard Bishop
A dog, I have always said, is prose; a cat is a poem. — Jean Burden
On May 15, 1957 Linus Pauling made an extraordinary speech to the students of Washington University. ... It was at this time that the idea… — Edward Condon
Like MoliÃ¨re's M. Jourdain, who spoke prose all his life without knowing it, mathematicians have been reasoning for at least two millennia without being aware… — Ernest Nagel
Composing on the typewriter, I find that I am sloughing off all my long sentences which I used to dote upon. Short, staccato, like modern… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
What a lumbering poor vehicle prose is for the conveying of a great thought! ... Prose wanders around with a lantern & laboriously schedules &… — Mark Twain
The novel is a prose narrative of some length that has something wrong with it. — Randall Jarrell
The prose as such has to be singing the song the story is telling. — Leonard Michaels
There was no really good true war book during the entire four years of the war. The only true writing that came through during the… — Ernest Hemingway
In science there is a dictum: don't add an experiment to an experiment. Don't make things unnecessarily complicated. In writing fiction, the more fantastic the… — Ben Bova
If a writer of prose knows enough about what he is writing about he may omit things that he knows and the reader, if the… — Ernest Hemingway
An essential element for good writing is a good ear: One must listen to the sound of one's own prose. — Barbara Tuchman
Words in prose ought to express the intended meaning; if they attract attention to themselves, it is a fault; in the very best styles you… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
I think my prose reads as if English were my second language. By the time I get to the end of a paragraph, I'm dodging… — Lynn Abbey
In the big picture I write for an audience of people I've never met. By the final draft I'm looking for anything in the prose… — Lionel Shriver

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