Prose Quotes

473 Prose quotes by 367 unique authors

Poetry seems to sink into us the way prose doesn't. I can still quote verses I learned when I was very young, but I have… — Jack Prelutsky
In mauve sea-orchids as in her striking earlier book Guardians of the Secret, Lila Zemborain brings into relationship the viscera of the body and the… — Forrest Gander
A probing analysis of the problems of evolution forms the basis of my prose. — Johannes V. Jensen
Thomas Ligotti is an absolute master of supernatural horror and weird fiction, and a true original. He pursues his unique vision with admirable honesty and… — Ramsey Campbell
Prose of the World is an enormously compelling and vivid study. The result is an ambitious, timely, and eloquent account of the relationship between early-twentieth-century… — Rebecca L. Walkowitz
In an idealized world, we would all be able to do what our English teachers told us to do, which is to write beautiful prose… — Will Schwalbe
Inexperienced fiction and creative nonfiction writers are often told to show, not tell - to write scenes, dramatize, cut exposition, cut summary - but it… — Laurie Alberts
To write? Because all this is going to vanish. The only thing left will be the prose and poems, the books, what is written down.… — James Salter
Next to the writer of real estate advertisements, the autobiographer is the most suspect of prose artists. — Donal Henahan
It is perfectly legitimate to write novels which are essentially prose poems, but in the end, I think, a novel is like a car, and… — Robert Harris
Prose, narratives, etcetera, can carry healing. Poetry does it more intensely. — Ted Hughes
There are lots of guys out there who write a better prose line than I do and who have a better understanding of what people… — Stephen King
A work of fiction should be, for its author, a journey into the unknown, and the prose should convey the difficulties of the journey. — Anthony Burgess
Exercises are like prose, whereas yoga is the poetry of movements. — Amit Ray
I should like, if I could, to leave a humble gift -- a bit of chaste prose that had caught up some noble moods. — Max Ehrmann
My whole life has been a struggle between Poetry and Prose, or call it Music and Law. — Robert Schumann
A poet or prose narrator usually looks back on what he has achieved against a backdrop of the years that have passed, generally finding that… — Eyvind Johnson
Clyde Phillip Wachsberger's delightful memoir about tending beds of flowers as compensation for a lonely middle age only to find unexpected romance along the way… — Unknown Author
Edwidge Danticat's prose has a Chekhovian simplicity--an ability to state the most urgent truths in a measured and patiently plain style that gathers a luminous… — Madison Smartt Bell
If geography is prose, maps are iconography, — Lennart Meri
Sleeping in Eden is intense and absorbing from the very first page. Written in lovely prose, two seemingly different storylines collide in a shocking conclusion. — Heather Gudenkauf
Summer for prose and lemons, for nakedness and languor, — Derek Walcott
I believe the novella is the perfect form of prose fiction. It is the beautiful daughter of a rambling, bloated ill-shaven giant (but a giant… — Ian Mcewan
Find what gave you emotion; what the action was that gave you excitement. Then write it down making it clear so that the reader can… — Ernest Hemingway
An appreciation of prose is learned, not instinctive. It is an acquired taste, like Scotch whisky. — Unknown Author

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