Prose Quotes

473 Prose quotes by 367 unique authors

Prose, narratives, etcetera, can carry healing. Poetry does it more intensely. — Ted Hughes
There are lots of guys out there who write a better prose line than I do and who have a better understanding of what people… — Stephen King
A work of fiction should be, for its author, a journey into the unknown, and the prose should convey the difficulties of the journey. — Anthony Burgess
Exercises are like prose, whereas yoga is the poetry of movements. — Amit Ray
I should like, if I could, to leave a humble gift -- a bit of chaste prose that had caught up some noble moods. — Max Ehrmann
My whole life has been a struggle between Poetry and Prose, or call it Music and Law. — Robert Schumann
A poet or prose narrator usually looks back on what he has achieved against a backdrop of the years that have passed, generally finding that… — Eyvind Johnson
Clyde Phillip Wachsberger's delightful memoir about tending beds of flowers as compensation for a lonely middle age only to find unexpected romance along the way… — Unknown Author
Edwidge Danticat's prose has a Chekhovian simplicity--an ability to state the most urgent truths in a measured and patiently plain style that gathers a luminous… — Madison Smartt Bell
If geography is prose, maps are iconography, — Lennart Meri
Sleeping in EdenÂ is intense and absorbing from the very first page. Written in lovely prose, two seemingly different storylines collide in a shocking conclusion. — Heather Gudenkauf
Summer for prose and lemons, for nakedness and languor, — Derek Walcott
I believe the novella is the perfect form of prose fiction. It is the beautiful daughter of a rambling, bloated ill-shaven giant (but a giant… — Ian Mcewan
Find what gave you emotion; what the action was that gave you excitement. Then write it down making it clear so that the reader can… — Ernest Hemingway
An appreciation of prose is learned, not instinctive. It is an acquired taste, like Scotch whisky. — Unknown Author
Only connect!...Only connect the prose and the passion. — E. M. Forster
MORE CONSISTENTLY THAN EVER I WAS TRYING TO MAKE PEOPLE BELIEVE THAT CINEMA AS AN INSTRUMENT OF ART HAS ITS OWN POSSIBILITIES WHICH ARE EQUAL… — Andrei Tarkovsky
What a poor appearance the tales of poets make when stripped of the colours which music puts upon them, and recited in simple prose. — Plato
From the reader's view, a poem is more demanding than prose. — Mark Strand
I love that moment in writing when language falls short. There is something more there. A larger body. Even by the failure of words I… — Susan Griffin

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