Prose Quotes
473 Prose quotes by 367 unique authors
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A changeableness, too, as if beneath my visible face there was another, having second thoughts.
— Jeffrey Eugenides
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The poetry of life must not be replaced with matter-of-fact prose.
— Steve Grand
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People often ask me why my style is so simple. It is, in fact, deceptively simple, for no two sentences are alike. It is clarity…
— Ruskin Bond
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So long as I remain alive and well I shall continue to feel strongly about prose style, to love the surface of the earth, and…
— George Orwell
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Perhaps, after all, romance did not come into one’s life with pomp and blare, like a gay knight riding down; perhaps it crept to one’s…
— Lucy Maud Montgomery
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To me [Edgar Allen Poe's] prose is unreadable—like Jane Austin's [sic]. No there is a difference. I could read his prose on salary, but not…
— Mark Twain
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Most contemporary novels are not really "written." They obtain what reality they have largely from an accurate rendering of the noises that human beings currently…
— Thomas Stearns Eliot
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The Postmodernists' tyranny wears people down by boredom and semi-literate prose.
— Christopher Hitchens
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Anyone who doubts that caffeine is a drug should read some of the prose composed under its influence.
— Anne Fadiman
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If heaven is tolerant and writers are allowed (bunch of liars though they are), I wonder if they gather for coffee to ponder the prose…
— Lori Lansens
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Only connect the prose and the passion, and both will be exalted, and human love will be seen at its highest. Live in fragments no…
— E. M. Forster
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He was a physicist, more precisely an astrophysicist, diligent and eager but without illusions: the Truth lay beyond, inaccessible to our telescopes, accessible to the…
— Primo Levi
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Everything in art depends on execution: the story of a louse can be as beautiful as the story of Alexander. You must write according to…
— Julian Barnes
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Good prose should be transparent, like a window pane.
— George Orwell
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OF writing many books there is no end; And I who have written much in prose and verse For others' uses, will write now for…
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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The young student sits with his head bent over his books, and his mind straying in youth's dreamland; where prose is prowling on the desk…
— Rabindranath Tagore
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Rich, ornate prose is hard to digest, generally unwholesome, and sometimes nauseating.
— William Strunk, Jr.
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Rather, very, little, pretty -- these are the leeches that infest the pond of prose, sucking the blood of words. The constant use of the…
— William Strunk, Jr.
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Everything in creation has its appointed painter or poet and remains in bondage like the princess in the fairy tale 'til its appropriate liberator comes…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The characters in my novels are my own unrealised possibilities. That is why I am equally fond of them all and equally horrified by them.…
— Milan Kundera
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She would only point out the salvation that was latent in his own soul, and in the soul of every man. Only connect! That was…
— E. M. Forster
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A garden should make you feel you've entered privileged space -- a place not just set apart but reverberant -- and it seems to me…
— Michael Pollan
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Many people become bankrupt through having invested too heavily in the prose of life. To have ruined one's self over poetry is an honor.
— Oscar Wilde
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Bookish people, who are often maladroit people, persist in thinking they can master any subtlety so long as it's been shaped into acceptable expository prose.
— Carol Shields
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...Mr. Wodehouse is a prose stylist of such startling talent that Frankie nearly skipped around with glee when she first read some of his phrases.…
— E. Lockhart
Who Wrote These Prose Quotes
367 authors contributed a total of 473 Prose Quotes, led by these top contributors: