Prose Quotes

473 Prose quotes by 367 unique authors

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… — Joyce Carol Oates
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… — Joyce Carol Oates
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… — Joyce Carol Oates
I was born left-handed, but I was made to use my other hand. When I was writing 'Famished Road,' which was very long, I got… — Ben Okri
It is also true that one can write nothing readable unless one constantly struggles to efface one's own personality. Good prose is like a windowpane. — George Orwell
The atmosphere of orthodoxy is always damaging to prose, and above all it is completely ruinous to the novel, the most anarchical of all forms… — George Orwell
A lot of times you get people writing wonderful sentences and paragraphs, and they fall in love with their prose style, but the stories really… — James Patterson
I certainly derived my skills as a prose writer from my scrutiny of poetry and of the individual word. But schools don't do things like… — Camille Paglia
I really don't have a lot in common with the people who attend the Comic Con. It's like assuming that all people who write prose… — Harvey Pekar
Good authors, too, who once knew better words now only use four-letter words writing prose... anything goes. — Cole Porter
Every now and then I read a poem that does touch something in me, but I never turn to poetry for solace or pleasure in… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
Cliches and adjectives permeated my prose. — Dick Schaap
In true prose everything must be underlined. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
I've written a lot of prose. I just haven't published it. — Patti Smith
A great actor is independent of the poet, because the supreme essence of feeling does not reside in prose or in verse, but in the… — Lee Strasberg
One merit of poetry few persons will deny: it says more and in fewer words than prose. — Voltaire
Poetry is a beautiful way of spoiling prose, and the laborious art of exchanging plain sense for harmony. — Horace Walpole
Yet, it is true, poetry is delicious; the best prose is that which is most full of poetry. — Virginia Woolf
I want the concentration and the romance, and the worlds all glued together, fused, glowing: have no time to waste any more on prose. — Virginia Woolf
The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mold of the body and mind. — Virginia Woolf
There is something about poetry beyond prose logic, there is mystery in it, not to be explained but admired. — Edward Young
Prose is walking; poetry is flying — Galway Kinnell
What did Nabokov and Joyce have in common, apart from the poor teeth and the great prose? Exile, and decades of near pauperism. A compulsive… — Martin Amis
See how weak prose is.... Presently I shall go to a bar and there one or two poets will speak to me and I to… — Jack Spicer
But what humans forget, cells remember. The body, that elephant — Jeffrey Eugenides

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