Prose Fiction Quotes
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Prose Fiction Quotes & Sayings
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The difference between an achiever and a loser is,
An achiever never gives up, never settles and lastly never forgets. — Akash Lakhotia
An achiever never gives up, never settles and lastly never forgets. — Akash Lakhotia
I see what's behind everything the director wants to do.
— Jordi Molla
I think about architecture all the time. That's the problem. But I've always been like that. I dream it sometimes.
— Zaha Hadid
A work of fiction should be, for its author, a journey into the unknown, and the prose should convey the difficulties of the journey.
— Anthony Burgess
The beauty of prose fiction that I see is simply that in order to create something you need only pay attention to personal exigency.
— James Kelman
The man who melts With social sympathy, though not allied, Is more worth than a thousand kinsmen.
— Euripides
I love that feeling of going into a packed theater.
— Brett Ratner
Prose is like a window; fiction is like a door. But it is not uncommon that he who should come in through the door jumps in through the window.
— Mu Xin
Never try to outgrow the people who were helping you walk,
when you could not even walk. — Akash Lakhotia
when you could not even walk. — Akash Lakhotia
The purpose of the pistol is to stop a fight that somebody else has started, almost always at very short range.
— Jeff Cooper
I want prose fiction to be recognized as that, and I'm not interested in writing as it becomes more personal.
— John C. Hawkes
God won't answer 100 percent of the prayers we don't pray.
— Mark Batterson
When I started Victoria Principal Products, there were 22 full-time employees - they were all women.
— Victoria Principal
To my mind, the prose in a non-fiction work that's going to endure has to be of the same quality as the prose in a work of fiction that endures.
— Robert Caro
The rhythm of fraught footsteps and fervent heartbeat orchestrated a symphony of anticipation and dread.
— Brian A. McBride
What is it?" Brion asked. "You look like you've been chewing on the ass end of a goat." Jonas
— Morgan Rhodes
I know my 17-year-old self would read my bourgeois fiction, full of metaphors and rhythmic prose, with a sinking heart.
— Jim Crace
Maybe that's who you are, what you remember. - Valentine
— Orson Scott Card
...and time becomes a forgotten detail.
— Mary E. Pearson
Afghanistan had collapsed and everyone's life now lies broken at different levels within the rubble.
— Nadeem Aslam
Writing fiction is an act of imagination and fantasizing, and it's not relating in prose what you've been doing for the last two or three years.
— Bret Easton Ellis
There is nothing quite like the controlled burn of Eugene Marten's prose. Waste is an exhilarating and unnerving piece of fiction.
— Sam Lipsyte
Poetry, at the best, does us a kind of violence that prose fiction rarely attempts or accomplishes.
— Harold Bloom
A work of art can start you thinking about some aesthetic or philosophical problem; it can suggest some new method, some fresh approach to fiction.
— Francine Prose
Fact-checking is so boring compared to writing fiction.
— Francine Prose
Sleeping Atlantis
Silent cool waters
dancing upon her skin ~
silent cool water
ushering dreams within... — Muse
Silent cool waters
dancing upon her skin ~
silent cool water
ushering dreams within... — Muse
The short story feels like the most natural length for prose fiction, or certainly for the kind of ideas and situations I like to encounter.
— Nicholas Royle
An inventor is one who can see the applicability of means to supply demand five years before it is obvious to those skilled in the art.
— Reginald Fessenden
If someone likes my fiction more for the quality of my prose rather than the quality of my storytelling, I'm doing something wrong.
— Jamie Ford
Great truths can only be forgotten and can never be falsified.
— G.K. Chesterton
Complete freedom consists of being able to do what you like, provided you also do something you like less.
— Italo Svevo
I buy shoes sometimes and use them as bookends. They're too beautiful to wear.
— Catherine Zeta-Jones