Burning Quote by Harriet Beecher Stowe

I would say that when I write prose I'm a more socially responsible person. I'm much more a citizen of the world. But the…

— Vijay Seshadri

The difference between poetry and rhetoric is being ready to kill yourself instead of your children.

— Audre Lorde

Shall we speak of the inspiration of a poet or a priest, and not of the heart impelled by love and self-devotion to the…

— Charles Dickens

I prefer my prose evocative rather than simply effective, with a bit of poetry to it.

— Gemma Files

I veer more toward the philosophical and the poetic than I do toward the alert and angry.

— Michelle Stuart

I think each writer has to seek her most energetic prose style. She has to find a way to write so that nobody can…

— George Saunders

Anyone who undertakes the literary grind had better like playing around with words.

— Roy Blount, Jr

I make no conscious effort to be tough, or hard-boiled, or grim, or any of the things I am usually called. I merely try…

— James M. Cain

The more one reads poetry, the less tolerant one becomes of any sort of verbosity, be that in political or philosophical discourse, be that…

— Joseph Brodsky

Writer does nothing, But think deeply.

— Shashank Rayal

I read a lot of prose poetry and get inspired by more-so just a state of mind.

— William Beckett

Your literary style reflects your personality.

— Louis Auchincloss