Prose Quotes

473 Prose quotes by 367 unique authors

A changeableness, too, as if beneath my visible face there was another, having second thoughts. — Jeffrey Eugenides
The poetry of life must not be replaced with matter-of-fact prose. — Steve Grand
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
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
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
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
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
The Postmodernists' tyranny wears people down by boredom and semi-literate prose. — Christopher Hitchens
Anyone who doubts that caffeine is a drug should read some of the prose composed under its influence. — Anne Fadiman
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
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
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
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
Good prose should be transparent, like a window pane. — George Orwell
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
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
Rich, ornate prose is hard to digest, generally unwholesome, and sometimes nauseating. — William Strunk, Jr.
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.
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
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
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
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
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
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
...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

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