Writing Prose Quotes

10 quotes by 8 authors

• I started out in life as a poet; I was only writing poetry all through my 20s. It wasn't until I was about 30 that… — Paul Auster
• My sole inspiration is a telephone call from a director. ... (when asked who wrote 'Some Enchanted Evening') Rodgers and Hammerstein, if you can imagine… — Cole Porter
• A prose writer gets tired of writing prose, and wants to be a poet. So he begins every line with a capital letter, and keeps… — Samuel McChord Crothers
• I used to write sonnets and various things, and moved from there into writing prose, which, incidentally, is a lot more interesting than poetry, including… — Shelby Foote
• Poetry is its own medium; it's very different than writing prose. Poetry can talk in an imagistic sense, it has particular ways of catching an… — Story Musgrave
• Writing anything is terribly hard but, alas for me, because I am addicted, a heck of a lot of fun. I often am sorry I… — Judy Collins
• The four great motives for writing prose are sheer egoism, esthetic enthusiasm, historical impulse, and political purpose. — George Orwell
• For me, poetry is an evasion of the real job of writing prose. — Sylvia Plath
• Good authors, too, who once knew better words now only use four-letter words writing prose... anything goes. — Cole Porter

Who Wrote These Writing Prose Quotes

8 authors contributed a total of 10 Writing Prose Quotes as follows:

• 2 Writing Prose Quotes by Cole Porter
• 1 Writing Prose Quote by Paul Auster
• 1 Writing Prose Quote by Samuel McChord Crothers
• 1 Writing Prose Quote by Shelby Foote
• 1 Writing Prose Quote by Story Musgrave
• 1 Writing Prose Quote by Judy Collins
• 1 Writing Prose Quote by George Orwell
• 1 Writing Prose Quote by Sylvia Plath