Prose Quotes

473 Prose quotes by 367 unique authors

I have always felt that the truth is prophetic, and that if you describe precisely what you see and give it life with your imagination,… — Paul Theroux
Prose is all about embellishing and describing. — Mike Birbiglia
If you like the precision and concision of poetry, a page of prose is unsatisfying in a certain way. And poetry is so direct. — Helen Vendler
Art, whatever form it takes, requires hard work, craftsmanship and creativity. As a writer, I know my grammar, cadence, the music of prose, and the… — F. Sionil Jose
Back in the 1980s, when I was a lowly editorial assistant by day and trying to be a novelist by night, no god reigned so… — Jean Hanff Korelitz
In prose, I think you sometimes have to write in very plain language, where every line may not seem to be so important, though in… — Grace Paley
I read a lot of autobiographical stories, and I write plays and prose. And I play piano and cello. A lot of my downtime is… — Alexis Dziena
The poetic prose that most interests me is that of Henri Michaux. — Franz Wright
My experience is that prose usually equals duty - last minute, overdue-deadline stuff or a panic lecture to be written. — Seamus Heaney
I love a big, character-rich story with a dark heart, with a compelling mystery or some kind of ticking clock at its center. I want… — Lisa Unger
If you ever want to understand multitasking in prose, James Joyce is your man. — Frank Delaney
It was an instinct to put the world in order that powered her mending split infinitives and snipping off dangling participles, smoothing away the knots… — David Leavitt
The older I get, the more I seek to use a plain prose style, concentrating more on story. — John Scott
People and places are the source of my work, both in prose and verse-and this remark is not the truism it seems, for I do… — Leonard Alfred George Strong
That poetry survived in its formal agencies finally, and that prose survived to get something said. — Robert Creeley
The decision to write in prose instead of poetry is made more by the readers than by writers. Almost no one is interested in reading… — Robert Morgan
When you have an idea for a story, you want those characters to reach as many people as you can. I think you normally think… — Robert Morgan
Poetry is fascinating. As soon as it begins the poetry has changed the thing into something extra, and somehow prose can go over into poetry. — Michael Tippett
My early prose style - this is so embarrassing - was sort of a suburban, Presbyterian knockoff of Woody Allen. — John Hughes
Occasionally I find a travel book that is both illuminating and entertaining, where vivid writing and research replace self-indulgence and sloppy prose. — Arthur Smith
Read a lot - poems, prose, stories, newspapers, anything. Read books and poems that you think you will like and some that you think might… — Michael Morpurgo
Writing for adults and writing for young people is really not that different. As a reporter, I have always tried to write as clearly and… — Serge Schmemann
So I really began as a failed poet - although when I first wanted to be a writer, I learned to write prose by reading… — Nicholson Baker
Poetry privileges music and is aesthetically more challenging. Prose privileges information and is emotionally more challenging. — Mary Karr
Prose cannot compete with the economy of poetry, the ability to have a full artistic experience in a short period of time. — Mary Karr

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