Best Prose Quotes
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What I do say is that I can write verse, and that the writing of verse in strict form is the best possible training for writing good prose.
— Philip Pullman
Felix had left his heart buried in the ground years ago, but he felt it crack apart.
— Lauren DeStefano
The man on the ceiling casts shadows of flesh, and sometimes the shadows take on lives of their own.
— Melanie Tem
Poetry and prose are of equal importance to me as a reader, and there doesn't seem to be much difference in my own writing.
— Kevin Powers
One could go on revising a prose page forever whereas there is a point in a poem when one knows it is done forever.
— May Sarton
I have a much greater ambition to be the best racket player than the best prose writer.
— William Hazlitt
Details are the Life of Prose.
— Jack Kerouac
I don't need anyone else to distract me from myself anymore, like I always thought I would. — Charlotte Eriksson
I gripped against her like she was metal and I was all full of lightning, charged up and jagged and of that moment alone.
— Chris Howard
A good sentence in prose should be like a good line in poetry, unchangeable, as rhythmic, as sonorous.
— Gustave Flaubert
The rhythm of fraught footsteps and fervent heartbeat orchestrated a symphony of anticipation and dread.
— Brian A. McBride
Traditionally, the love of reading has been born and nurtured in high school English class
— Francine Prose
Hyperbole comes easily to us. To find measured prose and even tone in the midst of aching grief was tough.
— Maithili Rao
Tighten your prose so the story flows.
— Anna Dobritt
Prose talks and poetry sings.
— Franz Grillparzer
A book that bores me to tears is a book that neglects character building and quality of prose.
— Kristin Cashore
I've often thought that the unit of measure that best suits prose is the human breath
— Charles D'Ambrosio
Like the one-sentence paragraph, the second-person point of view can also make us suspect that style is being used as a substitute for content.
— Francine Prose
There are some people who remain your best friends even if you haven't seen them for ages, and others with whom you start from scratch every time.
— Francine Prose
Despite my affection for subtext and plot and prose at its best... life, it turns out, is nothing more than the finer details.
— Bailey Vincent
Yet, it is true, poetry is delicious; the best prose is that which is most full of poetry.
— Virginia Woolf
Poetry, at the best, does us a kind of violence that prose fiction rarely attempts or accomplishes.
— Harold Bloom
You'd love a bit of pomp: that way in later years you might invoke end-of-empire ghosts.
— China Mieville
I suppose people might consider me a 'loose' reader, as I seem willing to read anything of quality thinking and prose.
— Chang-rae Lee
The Arabs have an expression for trenchant prose: no skill to understand it, mastery to write it.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
To my mind, most prose poems are more prose than poetry. They don't possess most of the qualities of a poem.
— Pattiann Rogers
To summarize a poem or put it into prose is quite simply to misunderstand the essence of an art.
— Paul Valery
The poet is a creator, not an iconoclast, and never will tamely endeavor to say in prose what can only be expressed in song.
— Edmund Clarence Stedman
Every song may be someone's personal implement of torture.
— Francine Prose
Novels certainly have their charms, but the most elegant creation in the prose universe is a short story.
— Gabrielle Zevin
Why can't prose be poetic?
— Kevin Focke
A prose writer gets tired of writing prose, and wants to be a poet. So he begins every line with a capital letter, and keeps on writing prose.
— Samuel McChord Crothers
Be patient. Life will give you what you need (to write your story).
— Francine Prose
The reading of tourist prospectuses is one of the joys of the world it is like operetta in prose
all so flowery and heavenlike. — Marsden Hartley
There are people who believe in an absolutely transparent prose; with every respect for clarity of expression, I don't.
— John M. Ford
