Prose Quotes
473 quotes by 367 authors
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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
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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
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Eloquence is the poetry of prose.
— William C. Bryant
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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
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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
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The only valid reason to use clichés is in the speech of a character. Cliches are indications of sloppy writing. The writer does not respect…
— Leonard Bishop
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A dog, I have always said, is prose; a cat is a poem.
— Jean Burden
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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
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Like Molière'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
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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
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What a lumbering poor vehicle prose is for the conveying of a great thought! ... Prose wanders around with a lantern & laboriously schedules &…
— Mark Twain
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The novel is a prose narrative of some length that has something wrong with it.
— Randall Jarrell
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The prose as such has to be singing the song the story is telling.
— Leonard Michaels
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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
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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
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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
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An essential element for good writing is a good ear: One must listen to the sound of one's own prose.
— Barbara Tuchman
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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
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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
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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
Who Wrote These Prose Quotes
367 authors contributed a total of 473 Prose Quotes, led by these top contributors: