Prose Quotes

473 Prose quotes by 367 unique authors

Susan Campbell has brought Isabella's fascinating forgotten story back to life with the deep research of a born historian and the vibrant readable prose style… — Debby Applegate
Good prose almost always requires both showing and telling, scenes and summary, the two basic components of creative prose. — Laurie Alberts
Allowing artist-illustrators to control the design and content of statistical graphics is almost like allowing typographers to control the content, style, and editing of prose. — Edward Tufte
When seriously explored, the short story seems to me the most difficult and disciplining form of prose writing extant. Whatever control and technique I may… — Truman Capote
An argument is made that there are just too many question marks about the near future; wouldn't it be better to wait until things clear… — Warren Buffett
The human brain can soften as a result of incessant listening to music with an intent to commit prose. — Donal Henahan
The most important tribute any human being can pay to a poem or a piece of prose he or she really loves is to learn… — George Steiner
I am a big fan of Dos Passos' stylistic ability, his poetic approach to prose, but the ideas presented in the songs are quite different… — Neil Peart
I used the word 'prose' in the Trans-Siberian in the early Latin sense of prosa dictu. Poem seemed to me too pretentious, too narrow. Prose… — Blaise Cendrars
I spend eight months outlining and researching the novel before I begin to write a single word of the prose. — Jeffery Deaver
My prose is turgid, it just hasn't got any energy — Carol Ann Duffy
When you finish a poem, it clicks shut like the top of a jewel box, but prose is endless. I haven't experienced an awful lot… — Kenneth Koch
Pace is crucial. Fine writing isn't enough. Writing students can be great at producing a single page of well-crafted prose; what they sometimes lack is… — Rose Tremain
I don't dream songs. I'm more apt to write dreams down and then to be able to interpret them into a song. I also tend… — Judy Collins
You’re trying to take something that can be described in many, many sentences and pages of prose, but you can convert it into a couple… — Satya Nadella
Prose is prose because of what it includes; poetry is poetry because of what it leaves out. — Marvin Bell
I want my prose to be as clear as a pane of glass. — Tracy Kidder
Prose is not to be read aloud but to oneself alone at night, and it is not quick as poetry but rather a gathering web… — Henry Green
However, if a poem can be reduced to a prose sentence, there can't be much to it. — James Schuyler
Clear prose indicates the absence of thought. — Marshall McLuhan
My plays are made up of long monologues, which is similar to prose working with the language — Elfriede Jelinek
Steve Forman strafes the south Florida scene with Boca Knights, an outrageously funny mystery novel with a raft of offbeat characters and prose that moves… — Douglas Preston
The strange, wonderful stories of Doctor Olaf van Schuler's Brain introduce us to the tremendously gifted Kirsten Menger-Anderson, a writer whose subject is nothing less… — Ben Fountain
Helen Lowe writes wonderful stories, yes, but her work also speaks with lyricism to deeper questions of how we treat each other. Â With lovely… — Catherine Asaro
In rich and captivating prose, Jessica DuLong kindly invites the rest of us on the journey of her lifetime: from a dot-com job to the… — Jon Meacham

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