Prose Quotes
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As a prose writer, I work with language; and those who work with language turn to poetry for renewal.
— Samuel R. Delany
Like most-maybe all- writers, I learned to write by writing and, by example, by reading books.
— Francine Prose
A page of good prose remains invincible.
— John Cheever
With Taipei Tao Lin becomes the most interesting prose stylist of his generation.
— Bret Easton Ellis
Solace of Silencesurreal synapses
of a melancholy drone
a dream per chance
she dared not be alone ... — Muse
She's like poetry. Like prose and love letters and lyrics, cascading down the center of a page.
— Colleen Hoover
A probing analysis of the problems of evolution forms the basis of my prose.
— Johannes Vilhelm Jensen
I read a lot of autobiographical stories, and I write plays and prose. And I play piano and cello. A lot of my downtime is devoted to that.
— Alexis Dziena
Never try to outgrow the people who were helping you walk, when you could not even walk. — Akash Lakhotia
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 haven't been very impressed lately.By people,
or places,
or the way someone said he loved me and then slowly changed his mind. — Charlotte Eriksson
With short stories, the story-teller must have a story to tell, not merely some sweet prose to take out for a walk
— Herbert Gold
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
Programming is the art of writing essays in crystal clear prose and making them executable
— Per Brinch Hansen
The moon hung heavy over the lake like an overripe orange, trickling its golden stream of light across inky depths.
— Julie Lessman
Eloquence is the poetry of prose.
— William C. Bryant
My preference is for prose with more silence in it, language that contains more pockets of strangeness.
— Anthony Doerr
I like to move around in the landscape between poetry and prose, between the lyrical and the narrative.
— Rigoberto Gonzalez
decision. I was tired of his jealousy, sick of his belief that the only permissible topic of conversation was his unrecognized genius.
— Francine Prose
The clouds took on the shape of dancers; from somewhere far off, Pram heard music before the clouds became normal again.
— Lauren DeStefano
I was as hollow and empty as the spaces between stars.
— Raymond Chandler
Prose is a poor thing, a poor inadequate thing, compared with poetry which says so much more in shorter time.
— Vita Sackville-West
In my younger days, I was trying to write sophisticated prose and fantastic stories.
— Haruki Murakami
Without play at many levels of language, from phonemes to logical structures, a poem is merely prose with linebreaks added.
— Helen Vendler
Writing a play, you have to retain it all in your head - you need more time. With prose, you can snatch an hour here, an hour there.
— Nell Leyshon
And perhaps, I'm a Tuesday night and you're a Wednesday morning the way we'll never even notice how we blend into each other.
— Danabelle Gutierrez
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
Strangely, Dante's Divine Comedy did not produce a prose of that creative height or it did so after centuries.
— Eugenio Montale
Metaphor is a slippery eel, if it wasn't for its shock I'd stick to the easy catch of prose.
— David Joseph Cribbin
The tradition of Russian literature is also an eastern tradition of learning poetry and prose by heart.
— Ryszard Kapuscinski
If it doesn't work horizontally as prose ... it probably won't work any better vertically pretending to be poetry.
— Robert Breault
Good authors, too, who once knew better words now only use four-letter words writing prose ... anything goes.
— Cole Porter
It ain't so easy writing about nothin
— Patti Smith
You'd love a bit of pomp: that way in later years you might invoke end-of-empire ghosts.
— China Mieville
All the elements of good writing depend on the writer's skill in choosing one word instead of another.
— Francine Prose
There are people who believe in an absolutely transparent prose; with every respect for clarity of expression, I don't.
— John M. Ford
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
Be patient. Life will give you what you need (to write your story).
— Francine Prose
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
Why can't prose be poetic?
— Kevin Focke
Prose exists to convey meaning, and no meaning such as prose conveys can be expressed as well in poetry. That's not poetry's purpose.
— Basil Bunting
Every song may be someone's personal implement of torture.
— Francine Prose
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
To summarize a poem or put it into prose is quite simply to misunderstand the essence of an art.
— Paul Valery
To my mind, most prose poems are more prose than poetry. They don't possess most of the qualities of a poem.
— Pattiann Rogers
The Arabs have an expression for trenchant prose: no skill to understand it, mastery to write it.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
I suppose people might consider me a 'loose' reader, as I seem willing to read anything of quality thinking and prose.
— Chang-rae Lee
Prose fills a space, like a liquid poured in from the top, but poetry occupies it, arrays itself in formation, sets up camp and refuses to budge.
— Simon Armitage
If you think while you write, you will enjoy it more and your prose will be more muscular and engaging.
— Elise Hancock
Around everything that is perfected, the unfinished ascends and intensifies.
— Rainer Maria Rilke
I don't think there's any essential difference, at least for me, between writing poetry and writing prose.
— Jorge Luis Borges
It has often been observed that the repercussion of poetic language on prose language can be considered a decisive cut of a whip.
— Eugenio Montale
Lovers meander in prose and rhyme,trying to say-
for the thousandth time-
what's easier done than said. — Piet Hein
What is this thing? trading passions for a tiny bit of acceptance.
— Charlotte Eriksson
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
The rhythm of fraught footsteps and fervent heartbeat orchestrated a symphony of anticipation and dread.
— Brian A. McBride
A book that bores me to tears is a book that neglects character building and quality of prose.
— Kristin Cashore
Prose talks and poetry sings.
— Franz Grillparzer
Tighten your prose so the story flows.
— Anna Dobritt
Hyperbole comes easily to us. To find measured prose and even tone in the midst of aching grief was tough.
— Maithili Rao
