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Prose Quotes by Joyce Carol Oates
- Prose-it might be speculated-is discourse; poetry ellipsis. Prose is spoken aloud; poetry overheard.
- Criticism is, for me, like essay writing, a wonderful way of relaxation; it doesn't require a heightened and mediated voice, like prose fiction, but rather…
- Henry James's later works would have been better had he resisted that curious sort of self-indulgence, dictating to a secretary. The roaming garrulousness of ordinary…
- When you are writing literary writing, you are communicating something subtextual with emotions and poetry. The prose has to have a voice; it's not just…
- Prose-it might be speculated-is discourse; poetry ellipsis. Prose is spoken aloud; poetry overheard. The one is presumably articulate and social, a shared language, the voice…
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- I started out in life as a poet; I was only writing poetry all through my 20s. It wasn't until I was… — Paul Auster
- All I wanted to do was write - at the time, poems, and prose, too. I guess my ambition was simply to… — Paul Auster
- Always be a poet, even in prose. — Charles Baudelaire
- Work on good prose has three steps: a musical stage when it is composed, an architectonic one when it is built, and… — Walter Benjamin
- For me, prose walks, poetry dances. — James Broughton
- Rachel Cusk's books are like pop-up volumes for grown-ups, the prose springing out of the page to bop you neatly between the… — Julie Burchill
- Here lies a plain and simple Jew who wrote in plain and simple prose. — Sholom Aleichem
- Take care of the sense and the sounds will take care of themselves. — Lewis Carroll
- For me, a page of good prose is where one hears the rain and the noise of battle. It has the power… — John Cheever
- For me, writing essays, prose and fiction is a great way to be self-indulgent. — Diablo Cody
- The aim of good prose words is to mean what they say. The aim of good poetical words is to mean what… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
- Any man who can write a page of living prose adds something to our life, and the man who can, as I… — Raymond Chandler