Prose Quote by Michiko Kakutani Download Open image “Glossy, efficient prose, garnished with a pinch of irony and a dab of melodrama.” — Michiko Kakutani ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.1 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Prose Writing
Melodrama is one of the most stunning art forms. These are stories where the emotions are big, and the situations are big, and the… — James Gray Copy Share Image
“In serious Victorian fiction, as in Shakespearian tragedy, melodrama normally functions as metaphor. The author finds a vivid equivalent for a reality too elaborate… — Ian Gregor Copy Share Image
I think there's something quite interesting about the almost tragic quality of a lot of overwrought prose, because it has a much more self-conscious… — China Mieville Copy Share Image
“Writing is a pitched battle with the elusive self, a contest that resultant celebratory jubilee demonstrates the writer’s innate capacity to meld abstract ideas… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“Good writers are avid readers. They have absorbed a vast inventory of words, idioms, constructions, tropes, and rhetorical tricks,” — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
“As social concerns override literary ones, writers seem fated to eschew virtuosity and experimentation in favor of a bland but immediately accessible style. Writing… — Nicholas Carr Copy Share Image
“Literary works are pieces of rhetoric as well as reports. They demand a peculiarly vigilant kind of reading, one which is alert to tone,… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
A young writer is easily tempted by the allusive and ethereal and ironic and reflective, but the declarative is at the bottom of most… — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
The drama is not a mere copy of nature, not a facsimile. It is the free running hand of genius, under the impression of… — Leigh Hunt Copy Share Image
“There seems a general wish of decrying the capacity and undervaluing the labor of the novelist, and of slighting performances which have only genius,… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Novels as dull as dishwater, with the grease of random sentiments floating on top. — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
“Technology offers the illusion of companionship without the demands of intimacy, and communication without emotional risk, while actually making people feel lonelier and more… — Michiko Kakutani Copy Share Image
One of my favorite things, as a critic, was finding books by new writers who possessed a distinctive voice and vision, an inventive gift… — Michiko Kakutani Copy Share Image
President Trump not only lies with astonishing temerity and abandon, but those lies connect into equally false narratives that gin up the worst fears… — Michiko Kakutani Copy Share Image
Indeed, 'The Second Plane' is such a weak, risible, and often objectionable volume that the reader finishes it convinced that Mr. Amis should stick… — Michiko Kakutani Copy Share Image
Like many people, I became increasingly alarmed during the 2016 campaign and the first year of the Trump administration by the full-on war being… — Michiko Kakutani Copy Share Image
California belongs to Joan Didion. Not the California where everyone wears aviator sunglasses, owns a Jacuzzi and buys his clothes on Rodeo Drive. But… — Michiko Kakutani Copy Share Image
If a novelist had concocted a villain like Trump - a larger-than-life, over-the-top avatar of narcissism, mendacity, ignorance, prejudice, boorishness, demagoguery, and tyrannical impulses,… — Michiko Kakutani Copy Share Image
I've always been a news junkie, and an avid reader of newspapers and magazines, and this interest only ramped up during the campaign of… — Michiko Kakutani Copy Share Image
With his mendacity and increasingly virulent attacks on immigrants, Muslims, women, the press, the judiciary, the intelligence services, the F.B.I. - any group or… — Michiko Kakutani Copy Share Image
One of the things I wanted to do in 'The Death of Truth' was explore some of the larger social and political dynamics that… — Michiko Kakutani Copy Share Image
Histories never conclude; they just pause their prose. Their stories are, if they are truthful, untidy affairs, resistant to windings-up and sortings-out. They beat… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
The poetry from the eighteenth century was prose; the prose from the seventeenth century was poetry. — David Hare Copy Share Image
“[A]lways get to the dialogue as soon as possible. I always feel the thing to go for is speed. Nothing puts the reader off… — P.G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
The aim of good prose words is to mean what they say. The aim of good poetical words is to mean what they do… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Mr Witwould: "Pray, madam, do you pin up your hair with all your letters? I find I must keep copies." Mrs Millamant: "Only with… — William Congreve Copy Share Image
“Don’t be afraid of your struggles, they are making you dangerously strong and wise. They are preparing you for your superpowers. Let them happen,… — Melody Lee Copy Share Image
Many people become bankrupt through having invested too heavily in the prose of life. To have ruined one's self over poetry is an honor. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
If you wrote a crummy line or maybe didn't sing to the best of your ability, there's layers of 10 different instruments all working… — Michelle Zauner Copy Share Image
Prose is when all the lines except the last go on to the end. Poetry is when some of them fall short of it. — Jeremy Bentham Copy Share Image
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… — Kenneth Koch Copy Share Image
To design is much more than simply to assemble, to order, or even to edit: it is to add value and meaning, to illuminate,… — Paul Rand Copy Share Image
The richly cadenced prose is hypnotic, the research prodigious, the analysis acute, the mood spellbinding, and the cast of characters mythic in scale. I… — Ron Chernow Copy Share Image
![“[A]lways get to the dialogue as soon as possible. I always feel the thing to go for is speed. Nothing puts the reader off more than a big slab of prose at the start." (Interview, The Paris Review , Issue 64, Winter 1975)” quote by P.G. Wodehouse](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/989/p-g-wodehouse-723_communication_a-lways-get-to-the-dialogue-as-soon-as-p_13316.jpg)
