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Writing Prose Quotes by Cole Porter
- My sole inspiration is a telephone call from a director. ... (when asked who wrote 'Some Enchanted Evening') Rodgers and Hammerstein, if you can imagine…
- Good authors, too, who once knew better words now only use four-letter words writing prose... anything goes.
More Writing Prose Quotes
- I started out in life as a poet; I was only writing poetry all through my 20s. It wasn't until I was… — Paul Auster
- My sole inspiration is a telephone call from a director. ... (when asked who wrote 'Some Enchanted Evening') Rodgers and Hammerstein, if… — Cole Porter
- A prose writer gets tired of writing prose, and wants to be a poet. So he begins every line with a capital… — 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… — 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… — Story Musgrave
- Writing anything is terribly hard but, alas for me, because I am addicted, a heck of a lot of fun. I often… — 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