167 Prose Quotes for You to Enjoy

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

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When prose gets too stylized and out of control - and Stein is sometimes a good example - when you don't know what the hell is going on, then it's kind of boring. Rick Moody

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That poetry survived in its formal agencies finally, and that prose survived to get something said. Robert Creeley

Finally Something Poetry Prose Said Survived Get Formal Agencies

There are a lot of editorials that have nothing to do with anything like that. But I was just thinking of that sense of prose as being very responsible and perceptive, thoughtful, intimate, and contriving a quote statement. Robert Creeley

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Prose books are the show dogs I breed and sell to support my cat. Robert Graves

Books Cat Prose Support Dogs Sell Breed Show

The decision to write in prose instead of poetry is made more by the readers than by writers. Almost no one is interested in reading narrative in verse. Robert Morgan

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Daniel Woodrell has made a name as a master of prose with personality - a densely descriptive, gamey form of storytelling, one might say traditional storytelling - of late rather an unfashionable mode. Sarah Hall

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Here lies a plain and simple Jew who wrote in plain and simple prose. Sholom Aleichem

Simple Lies Prose Wrote Plain Who Here Jew

Henry Miller is a famous writer whose work has fallen out of fashion, but I strongly recommend that readers who don't know his work pick up a book and experience this writer's zealous, crazy, inventive, funny, sexy, often delirious prose. Siri Hustvedt

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I've already written 300 space poems. But I look upon my ultimate form as being a poetic prose. When you read it, it appears to be prose, but within the prose you have embedded the techniques of poetry. Story Musgrave

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It was not till toward the end of the thirteenth century that the prose romances began to appear. Thomas Bulfinch

Prose Toward Till Began End Romances Century Appear

I don't journal to 'be productive.' I don't do it to find great ideas or to put down prose I can later publish. The pages aren't intended for anyone but me. It's the most cost-effective therapy I've ever found. Tim Ferriss

The newspaper is, in fact, very bad for one's prose style. That's why I gravitated towards feature stories where you get a little more leeway in the writing style. Tom Wolfe

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Cormac McCarthy's language is perfect. He is in my view the greatest living American prose stylist. Tommy Lee Jones

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Lately, I've been thinking about the difference between poetry and prose, and as I've experienced it, poetry is insistent. It allows for images and statements to operate in a single space and resonate powerfully without the application to be elaborated upon and narrated. Tracy K. Smith

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Prose is something that is persistent in staying in one place long enough to not only zero in on the dramatic effect of something that might have happened, or something that might have been seen, but also in watching how it played out and thinking about the cause and the effect. Tracy K. Smith

I want my prose to be as clear as a pane of glass. Tracy Kidder

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I won't be attempting to write Jane Austen-style prose - that would be suicidal. But I will attempt to bring the highest level of my own prose, and to make it sparkle. Val McDermid

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