Prose Quotes

473 Prose quotes by 367 unique authors

Writing a play, you have to retain it all in your head - you need more time. With prose, you can snatch an hour here,… — Nell Leyshon
Whatever brief delights it provides, mere strangeness in poetry and prose eventually leaves us cold, especially when we suspect the writer is stretching for effect… — Roger Rosenblatt
What a poor appearance the tales of poets make when stripped of the colors which music puts upon them, and recited in simple prose — Plato
To hell with reality! I want to die in music, not in reason or in prose. People don't deserve the restraint we show by not… — Louis-Ferdinand Celine
EPIGRAM, n. A short, sharp saying in prose or verse, frequently characterize by acidity or acerbity and sometimes by wisdom. Following are some of the… — Ambrose Bierce
Puritan age is a golden age of the prose writing. — RMKATTA
Writers.....born not in the Halls of Education....but in the fires of necessity. Masters not of prose, form, language, or a perceived command of the Art.… — Vladislas Nikilovic
I believe he loved a lot of things about me, yet was afraid to accept. He said he never ended it because he never wanted… — Dominic Riccitello
No, I can't write treatments, I think there's a danger with treatments. That you... you write out your first excitement and enthusiasm in a prose… — Ronald Harwood
I want prose fiction to be recognized as that, and I'm not interested in writing as it becomes more personal. — John Hawkes
It is a way we reassess our past. We can do that in poetry in ways we can't do in prose. — Peter Davison
In the plays - that's where I go crazy. But my prose has a much lighter touch; it's not trying to thrill with language, just… — Denis Johnson
We don't attempt to have any theme for a number of the anthology, or to have any particular sequence. We just put in things that… — James Laughlin
I think Maus I is better than Maus II. The standard here is whether or not it's as good as a great book of prose… — Ted Rall
When prose gets too stylized and out of control - and Stein is sometimes a good example - when you don't know what the hell… — Rick Moody
Music is more emotional than prose, more revolutionary than poetry. I'm not saying I've got the answers, just a of questions that I don't hear… — Malcolm Wilson
Who among us has not, in moments of ambition, dreamt of the miracle of a form of poetic prose, musical but without rhythm and rhyme,… — Charles Baudelaire
Good prose is the selection of the best words; poetry is the best words in the best order; and journalese is any old words in… — Unknown Author
Glossy, efficient prose, garnished with a pinch of irony and a dab of melodrama. — Michiko Kakutani
The poet, whether in prose or verse, the creator, can only stamp his images forcibly on the page, in proportion, as he has forcibly felt,… — Unknown Author
What's it take to bceome a sublime expounder of prose like yourself? — Carlie
Perhaps, after all, romance did not come into ones life with pomp and blare, like a gay knight riding down; perhaps it crept to ones… — Hussein Nishah
MARRIAGE, Is a book in which the first chapter is written in poetry and the rest of the book is prose; — Nikhil Saluja

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