Prose Quotes

However, if a poem can be reduced to a prose sentence, there can't be much to it. James Schuyler
Poem Poetry Prose Reduced However Sentence Much
When you realize my best selling books are 'Owl Moon,' the 'How Do Dinosaur' books, and 'Devil's Arithmetic,' how can the public make sense of that! I have fans who think I only write picture books or only write SF and fantasy. I have fanatics of my poetry and are stunned to find out I write prose, too! Jane Yolen
Best You Fans Moon Picture Devil Sense Think Too Books Out Find Dinosaur Only Poetry Write Prose Arithmetic Picture Books Stunned Make How Selling Owl Fanatics Public Fantasy Realize Who
You start realizing that good prose is crunchy. There's texture in your mouth as you say it. You realize bad writing, bland writing, has no texture, no taste, no corners in your mouth. I'm a great believer in reading aloud. Janet Fitch
Good Great You Writing Reading Mouth Great Believer Corners Say Bad Bland Prose Aloud Texture Taste Realize Realizing Your Believer Start
Back in the 1980s, when I was a lowly editorial assistant by day and trying to be a novelist by night, no god reigned so supreme as the god of literary prose. Jean Hanff Korelitz
God Day Back Prose Supreme Editorial Trying Literary Lowly Novelist Reigned Assistant Night
I say that glorious prose is a fine and laudable thing, but without an enthralling story, it's just so much verbal tapioca. Simply put, the best books have both, and the best writers disparage neither. Jean Hanff Korelitz
Best Glorious Books Say Neither Fine Both Writers Put Simply Prose Without Verbal Just Story Much Disparage Thing
I have always tended toward a lush prose style, but I take care to modulate it from story to story and to strip it down entirely when necessary. Jeff Vandermeer
Care Style Down Strip Entirely Take Take Care Prose Toward Always Story Necessary Lush
'Swan,' by Mary Oliver. Poems and prose. Reading from this book is as if visiting a very wise friend. There is wisdom and welcoming kindness on every page. Jessye Norman
Wisdom Kindness Wise Book Reading Every Visiting Poems Mary Prose Welcoming Friend Very Swan Page Oliver
If the rules of a language are followed, words usually make sense. But these very rules can stir the impulse to rebel. We're obliged to keep trying to convey meaning through correct sentences. After a while, the good-soldier rigidity of polished prose can begin to seem dull, and it gets harder to resist the temptation of nonsense. Joanna Scott
Words Language Sense Correct Rules Rigidity Followed Seem Temptation Obliged Through Prose Make Polished Nonsense Dull Stir Very Begin Trying Gets Impulse After While Convey Meaning Sentences Rebel Keep Harder Resist
I want prose fiction to be recognized as that, and I'm not interested in writing as it becomes more personal. John C. Hawkes
Writing Recognized More Prose Becomes Personal Want Fiction Not Interested Interested
When critics are waiting to pounce upon poetic style on exactly the same grounds as if it were prose, the poets tremble. John Crowe Ransom
Waiting Style Tremble Exactly Critics Exactly The Same Poetic Poets Prose Were Same Grounds
He can develop sense and style, in the manner of distinguished modern prose, in which event he may be sure that the result will not fall into any objective form. John Crowe Ransom
Result Will Style Fall Sense Distinguished Objective Develop He Prose Sure Modern Any May Form Which Manner Event
So it is in poetry. All we ask is that the mood recorded shall impress us as having been of the kind that exhausts the imaginative capacity; if it fails to do this the failure will announce itself either in prose or in insignificant verse. John Drinkwater
Failure Will Impress Mood Kind Insignificant Recorded Having Shall Poetry Prose Fails Announce Been Verse Itself Either Capacity Ask Us Imaginative
My early prose style - this is so embarrassing - was sort of a suburban, Presbyterian knockoff of Woody Allen. John Hughes
Style Embarrassing Allen Prose Sort Woody Woody Allen Suburban Presbyterian Early
I've always liked police-blotter kind of writing, or the writing of a policeman, right to the point and hardboiled. That's how I see at least the prose elements of scriptwriting. Jonathan Ames
Writing Kind See Point Prose Liked Policeman Always How Least Elements Right
I might have some sort of personality disorder. I might not have proper filters; it might be some kind of version of Asperger's meets Tourettes meets prose. Jonathan Ames
Personality Filters Meets Kind Some Proper Prose Sort Version Personality Disorder Might Disorder
I think poetry should be read very much like prose, except that the line breaks should be acknowledged somehow. Jonathan Galassi
Think Somehow Poetry Except Prose Like Read Line Very Acknowledged Breaks Much Should
Good style in prose is always hostage to the precision, speed, and laconic intensity of poetic diction. Joseph Brodsky
Good Style Speed Poetic Hostage Prose Always Diction Precision Intensity
Poetry isn't just different from prose, it's more important for the human species. Joseph Brodsky
Important More Poetry Prose Human Just Different Human Species Species
Henry James's later works would have been better had he resisted that curious sort of self-indulgence, dictating to a secretary. The roaming garrulousness of ordinary speech is usually corrected when it's transcribed into written prose. Joyce Carol Oates
Better Later Secretary Corrected Would Had He Written Prose Roaming Sort Been Curious James Ordinary Works Henry Resisted Speech
When you are writing literary writing, you are communicating something subtextual with emotions and poetry. The prose has to have a voice; it's not just typing. It takes a while to get that voice. Joyce Carol Oates
You Writing Emotions Typing Something Voice Poetry Prose Takes Get Just Literary While Communicating
Writing anything is terribly hard but, alas for me, because I am addicted, a heck of a lot of fun. I often am sorry I ever started writing prose, because it is so hard. But I can't stop. Judy Collins
Me Writing Sorry Addicted Prose Terribly Because Am Lot Often Stop Anything Heck Hard Fun Ever Alas Started
I don't dream songs. I'm more apt to write dreams down and then to be able to interpret them into a song. I also tend to get up and write prose in the morning from which will come songs. Judy Collins
Dreams Morning Song Will Down Apt Dream Able More Tend Write Songs Prose Come Also Up Get Which Them Then Interpret
Poetry and prose can start a revolution, break walls, and ideas can build nations. Kanika Dhillon
Walls Build Revolution Poetry Prose Ideas Nations Break Start
I would never write a sentence that didn't have a nice rhythm, or at least I wouldn't leave it to be published like that. It seems to me that prose mustn't be prosaic. Kate Grenville
Me Nice Would Seems Write Never Prose Like Least Leave Rhythm Sentence Published
Donald Westlake's lean prose and deadpan delivery are engaging, as always. Katherine Dunn
Delivery Prose Lean Always Donald Engaging
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 lot of clicking shut! Kenneth Koch
You Top Poem Finish Prose Like Box Clicking Clicks Lot Endless Experienced Awful Awful Lot Shut Jewel
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