Prose Quotes

473 Prose quotes by 367 unique authors

I believe so deeply in the primacy of language, in lifting your prose to the highest level you're capable of and making your words symphonic. — Dennis Lehane
I'm a better polemicist in prose. — Ted Rall
When I put together a graphic novel, I don't think about literary prose. I think about storytelling. — Ted Rall
In some sense, prose fiction is just a way of unlocking a space. If I can unlock the space, it comes out and it's vivid,… — Ben Marcus
I think there's something quite interesting about the almost tragic quality of a lot of overwrought prose, because it has a much more self-conscious awareness… — China Mieville
I think graphic novels are closer to prose than film, which is a really different form. — Denise Mina
Apart from a few simple principles, the sound and rhythm of English prose seem to me matters where both writers and readers should trust not… — F L Lucas
The fact that scientists do not consciously practice a formal methodology is very poor evidence that no such methodology exists. It could be said-has been… — Peter Medawar
Writing anything is terribly hard but, alas for me, because I am addicted, a heck of a lot of fun. I often am sorry I… — Judy Collins
Many of today's verses are prose and bad prose. — Eugenio Montale
There is poetry even in prose, in all the great prose which is not merely utilitarian or didactic: there exist poets who write in prose… — Eugenio Montale
The tradition of Russian literature is also an eastern tradition of learning poetry and prose by heart. — Ryszard Kapuscinski
Prose talks and poetry sings. — Franz Grillparzer
It's funny, because in deference to conventional wisdom, I spent my struggling writer years trying to suppress my naturally baroque literary voice and write clean,… — Jacqueline Carey
What judgment I had increases rather than diminishes; and thoughts, such as they are, come crowding in so fast upon me, that my only difficulty… — John Dryden
Gil Thorpe is a great diversion and is to book writing as poetry is to prose. — Jerry B. Jenkins
There is no form of prose more difficult to understand and more tedious to read than the average scientific paper. — Francis Crick
There are people who believe in an absolutely transparent prose; with every respect for clarity of expression, I don't. — John M. Ford
I fantasised about F. Scott Fitzgerald's 'The Great Gatsby' - I loved it, and then I read everything J. D. Salinger had to offer. Then… — Garrett Hedlund
They have written volumes out of which a couplet of verse, a period in prose, may cling to the rock of ages, as a shell… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
I've seen plays that are, objectively, total messes that move me in ways that their tidier brethren do not. That's the romantic mystery of great… — Ben Brantley
History meets romance meets suspense! Compelling, original and wildly romantic, Beatriz Williams’ prose is stunning and the plot edge-of-your-seat gripping. OVERSEAS is an absolute triumph—I… — Tilly Bagshawe
I like to write with a lot of emotion and a lot of power. Sometimes I overdo it; sometimes my prose is a little bit… — Buzz Bissinger
Yet no one hears his own remarks as prose. — Wystan Hugh Auden
If you know that everything comes from the mind, don't become attached. Once attached, you're unaware. But once you see your own nature, the entire… — Bodhidharma

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