Prose Quotes

473 Prose quotes by 367 unique authors

With a profound first-hand knowledge of participants, encompassing linguistic competence, and engaging prose, Padraic Kenney recreates the simultaneously serious and playful currents of East Europe's… — Charles S. Maier
The Ploughmen is as good a book as I’ve read in years. Kim Zupan’s language is as rich as Cormac McCarthy’s, and like Cormac’s, it… — Rick DeMarinis
One of the best known, and one of the least intelligible, facts of literary history is the lateness, in Western European Literature at any rate,… — George Saintsbury
The Italian prose tale had begun to exercise that influence as early as Chaucer's time: but circumstances and atmosphere were as yet unfavourable for its… — George Saintsbury
A Wedding In Haiti is a great experience and its unaffected prose is as true a portrait of complex Haiti as you will find. — Mark Kurlansky
The language of politics is poetry, not prose. Jackson is poetry. Cuomo is poetry. Dukakis is a word processor. — Richard M. Nixon
It was not till toward the end of the thirteenth century that the prose romances began to appear. — Thomas Bulfinch
If you have feelings about reading, you feel the rhythm of prose or of a poem like music. It awakens something in your soul and… — Unknown Author
And I was troubled by the heavy-handed prose of so much psychoanalytic writing, which seemed drowned in its own concepts. — Robert Jay Lifton
I am a poet who composes what life proses, and who proses what life composes. — Khalil Gibran
EPIGRAM, n. A short, sharp saying in prose or verse, frequently characterize by acidity or acerbity and sometimes by wisdom. — Ambrose Bierce
Nobody brings ancient history and archaeology to life like Adrienne Mayor. From the Russian steppes to China, and from Roman Egypt and Arabia to the… — Edith Hall
The word 'creative' refers simply to the use of literary craft in presenting nonfiction—that is, factually accurate prose about real people and events—in a compelling,… — Lee Gutkind
The Last Of England works with image and sound, a language which is nearer to poetry than prose. It tells its story quite happily in… — Derek Jarman
When I first wanted to be a writer, I learned to write prose by reading poetry. — Nicholson Baker
Keep your exclamation points under control. You are allowed no more than two or three per 100,000 words of prose. — Elmore Leonard
I suppress in my prose any language which calls attention to itself. — Jerzy Kosinski
Writing is revision. All prose responds to work. — Tracy Kidder
Prose is like hair; it shines with combing. — Gustave Flaubert
It is not a waste to write beautiful prose or poetry for one person's eyes alone! — Edith Schaeffer
I came to realize that far more important to me than any plot or conventional sense was the sheer directionality I felt while reading prose,… — Ben Lerner
In Madame Bovary Flaubert never allows anything to go on too long; he can suggest years of boredom in a paragraph, capture the essence of… — Michael Dirda
An up-close portrait of middle-class Nigeria exploring the boundaries of morals and public decorum. Pitched between humor and despair, with stripped-down, evocative prose, A Bit… — Nii Parkes
With engaging prose, Engelman takes readers on a delightful journey?that both entertains and educates ? of modern civilization and women's central role to ensuring the… — Unknown Author
Prose is not necessarily good because it obeys the rules of syntax, but it is fairly certain to be bad if it ignores them. — Wilson Follett

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