Prose Quote by Patti Smith Download Open image “I've written a lot of prose. I just haven't published it.” — Patti Smith ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.2 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Prose Writing Written
I'm not as good a prose writer as I'd like to be, but I never aspired to that. — Mark Waid Copy Share Image
I do write a lot of prose. It's not disciplined enough yet that it's actually become stories, or short stories. The idea of writing… — PJ Harvey Copy Share Image
I am a very personal writer. I write direct to the reader. I don't hold back. — Ruskin Bond Copy Share Image
I've been writing since I'm five years old. I've been writing books since high school - junior high, high school. I write every single… — Karrine Steffans Copy Share Image
If you do not seek to publish what you have written, then you are not a writer and you never will be. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My writing is progressing slowly, but at least it's moving forward. I'm sure that's the case. The only problem is that I'm never absolutely… — Mikhail Bulgakov Copy Share Image
I had a really happy childhood - my siblings were great, my mother was very fanciful, and I loved to read. But there was… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
Sometimes [people] seem to think I came out of the womb, you know, cursing, with an electric guitar. — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
“Inside it he inscribed a few lines of poetry, portraying us as the gypsy and the fool, one creating silence; one listening closely to… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
“I clawed through a thick web of the culture’s consciousness that I hadn’t known existed.” — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
Ultimately, we are not seeking others to bow to, but to reinforce our individual natures, to help us suffer our own choices, to guide… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
If I'm taking a picture of Brancusi's grave, I know that there's something of him, of his mortal remains, beneath my feet, and there's… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
I'm certain, as we filled down the great staircase, that I appeared the same as ever, a moping twelve years-old, all arms and legs.… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
In art and dream may you proceed with abandon. In life may you proceed with balance and stealth. — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
New York is the thing that seduced me. New York is the thing that formed me. New York is the thing that deformed me.… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
I don't wanna be equal with anybody. I wanna be above equal. I don't think most people are equal to me. I'd like to… — Patti Smith 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
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, otherwise you’ll stay in the same damn place you’ve always been, and until you know there is so much more awesomeness in the world you’ll be content in your tiny cocoon, spinning the same circles day… — Melody Lee Copy Share
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
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
when a poem says something that could not have been said in any other way, in music, prose, sculpture, movement or paint, then it… — Sybil Marshall Copy Share Image
My husband makes fun of me, because I know I can use strong prose to jazz-hand my way through plot that isn't as interesting… — Kelly Sue DeConnick Copy Share Image