Prose Quotes

473 Prose quotes by 367 unique authors

I started out as a writer. Poetry and prose and also kind of satirical David Sedaris-esque stuff. — Pauley Perrette
There is nothing quite like the controlled burn of Eugene Marten’s prose. Waste is an exhilarating and unnerving piece of fiction. — Sam Lipsyte
Alethea Black can drop you into a dream with a single sentence, then convince you it's real. Her characters' best hopes and worst fears usually… — Unknown Author
Herein find fiction full of whimsy, wit, hurt, and terror. Wicked, as in wickedly funny, is in the mix, too, along with a prose style… — Christine Schutt
The Hours is in fact a lovely triumph. Cunningham honors both Mrs. Dalloway and its creator with unerring sensitivity, thanks to his modesty of intention… — Gail Caldwell
Even in a crowded field, it is a rare pleasure to come across a prose stylist like Kellie Wells, whose intellect and language bid one… — Jaimy Gordon
I see manuscripts and books that are spoiled for the literary reader because they are one long stream of top-of-the-head writing, a writer telling a… — Sol Stein
The prose of Joe Pulver can take its place with that of the masters of our genre – E.A. Poe, H.P. Lovecraft, Ramsey Campbell, Thomas… — S. T. Joshi
Exercises are like prose, whereas yoga is the poetry of movements. Once you understand the grammar of yoga; you can write your poetry of movements. — Amit Ray
The words in prose ought to express the intended meaning, and no more; if they attract attention to themselves, it is, in general, a fault. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
I can manage a prose format as long as I keep closer to Laurence Sterne than to Henry James. — David Antin
Poets seem to write more easily about love than prose writers. For a start, they own that flexible ‘I’…. Then again, poets seem able to… — Julian Barnes
My medium is prose, not the novel. — David Shields
Poetry demands a different material than prose. It uses another facet of the same fact … the spontaneous conformation of language as it is heard. — William Carlos Williams
I am not a great prose stylist. I'm a storyteller. There are thousands of people who don't like what I do. Fortunately, there are millions… — James Patterson
What I do say is that I can write verse, and that the writing of verse in strict form is the best possible training for… — Philip Pullman
The process of composition, messing around with paragraphs and trying to make really good prose, is hardwired into my personality. — Rick Moody
It wasn't by accident that the Gettysburg address was so short. The laws of prose writing are as immutable as those of flight, of mathematics,… — Ernest Hemingway
I don't suppose a writing man ever really gets rid of his old crocus-yellow neckties. Sooner or later, I think, they show up in his… — J D Salinger
I have to say from the outset that not all prose can be transferred to the screen. — Andrei Tarkovsky
Agitation is all about poetry, governance is all about prose. — Jairam Ramesh
The only imaginative prose writer of the slightest value who has appeared among the English-speaking races for some years past. — George Orwell
Nothing is more satisfying than to write a good sentence. It is no fun to write lumpishly, dully, in prose the reader must plod through… — Barbara Tuchman
Voice is the je ne sais quoi of spirited writing. It separates brochures and brilliance, memo and memoir, a ship's log and The Old Man… — Constance Hale
Krzhizhanovsky wanted to perform imaginary experiments with the nature of time and space. Outside, in the streets, the Communist state was busy performing such experiments… — Adam Thirlwell

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