Books Quote by Paul Auster

While I was writing poems, I would often divert myself by reading detective novels, I liked them. And there was a period when I…

— Paul Auster

“A poet writing poetry, an artist creating calligraphy. An author scripting mastery with an encyclopedia intellect. From from a derelict's viewpoint, that can only…

— Jr. Lily

Gregory Corso used to get really pissed when people called Bob Dylan a 'poet.' After writing poetry for a few years, I can understand…

— Steve Earle

Once considered an art form that called for talent, or at least a craft that called for practice, a poem now needs only sincerity.…

— Barbara Holland

I approach writing a poem in a much different state than when I am writing prose. It's almost as if I were working in…

— Pattiann Rogers

For a long time, I saw writing prose as chewing rocks compared to the velocities of writing poetry.

— David Biespiel

I don't think there's any essential difference, at least for me, between writing poetry and writing prose.

— Jorge Luis Borges

I don't do much of anything consciously in writing - in poetry writing, anyway, prose usually being a different matter, of course.

— Ron Padgett

“Writing is not always a priority. . . .I only write those things that are necessary for me to write. I love to write,…

— Tony Leuzzi

“Considering the ways in which so many of us waste our time, what would be wrong with a world in which everybody were writing…

— Ted Kooser

It wasn't by accident that the Gettysburg address was so short. The laws of prose writing are as immutable as those of flight, of…

— Ernest Hemingway

When seriously explored, the short story seems to me the most difficult and disciplining form of prose writing extant. Whatever control and technique I…

— Truman Capote

There should be two main objectives in ordinary prose writing: to convey a message and to include in it nothing that will distract the…

— Robert Graves

Unlike prose writing, the strange process of writing with pictures encourages associations and recollections to accumulate literally in front of your eyes; people, places,…

— Chris Ware

I'd always been really intimidated by prose writing.

— David Rees