I think my prose reads as if English were my second language. By the time I get to the end of a paragraph, I'm dodging bullets and gasping for breath. Lynn Abbey American Author More Lynn Abbey Quotes 0
Because, if one is writing novels today, concentrating on the beauty of the prose is right up there with concentrating on your semi-colons, for wasted effort. Neil Gaiman British Author More Neil Gaiman Quotes 0
My plays are made up of long monologues, which is similar to prose working with the language. Elfriede Jelinek American Playwright More Elfriede Jelinek Quotes 0
Gil Thorpe is a great diversion and is to book writing as poetry is to prose. Jerry B. Jenkins American Novelist More Jerry B. Jenkins Quotes 0
The tradition of Russian literature is also an eastern tradition of learning poetry and prose by heart. Ryszard Kapuscinski Polish Journalist More Ryszard Kapuscinski Quotes 0
Stylized acting and direction is to realistic acting and direction as poetry is to prose. Elia Kazan American Director More Elia Kazan Quotes 0
Prose on certain occasions can bear a great deal of poetry; on the other hand, poetry sinks and swoons under a moderate weight of prose. Walter Savage Landor English Poet More Walter Savage Landor Quotes 0
All those authors there, most of whom of course I've never met. That's the poetry side, that's the prose side, that's the fishing and miscellaneous behind me. You get an affection for books that you've enjoyed. Norman MacCaig Scottish Poet More Norman MacCaig Quotes 0
You can always count on a murderer for a fancy prose style. Vladimir Nabokov American Novelist More Vladimir Nabokov Quotes 0
I think Maus I is better than Maus II. The standard here is whether or not it's as good as a great book of prose literature and by that standard, no, it's not that great. Ted Rall American Cartoonist More Ted Rall Quotes 0
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 C. Ransom More John C. Ransom Quotes 0
When critics are waiting to pounce upon poetic style on exactly the same grounds as if it were prose, the poets tremble. John C. Ransom More John C. Ransom Quotes 0
When I put together a graphic novel, I don't think about literary prose. I think about storytelling. Ted Rall American Cartoonist More Ted Rall Quotes 0
One of the best known, and one of the least intelligible, facts of literary history is the lateness, in Western European Literature at any rate, of prose fiction, and the comparative absence, in the two great classical languages, of what we call by that name. George Saintsbury English Writer More George Saintsbury Quotes 0
The Italian prose tale had begun to exercise that influence as early as Chaucer's time: but circumstances and atmosphere were as yet unfavourable for its growth. George Saintsbury English Writer More George Saintsbury Quotes 0
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 American Writer More Jeff Vandermeer Quotes 0
Poetry is a beautiful way of spoiling prose, and the laborious art of exchanging plain sense for harmony. Horace Walpole English Author More Horace Walpole Quotes 0
I would never write realistic prose. I don't like people who try to write in a poetic style, but in the course of their book abandon it for realism, and weave back and forth like drunkards between the surreal and the real. Marguerite Young American Author More Marguerite Young Quotes 0
There is something about poetry beyond prose logic, there is mystery in it, not to be explained but admired. Edward Young English Poet More Edward Young Quotes 0
There is a strong tendency in explanatory prose to invoke quantities of tension, energy, and whatnot to explain the genesis of pattern. I believe that all such explanations are inappropriate or wrong. Gregory Bateson British Scientist More Gregory Bateson Quotes 0
To hell with reality! I want to die in music, not in reason or in prose. People don't deserve the restraint we show by not going into delirium in front of them. To hell with them! Louis-Ferdinand Celine French Writer More Louis-Ferdinand Celine Quotes 0
I can manage a prose format as long as I keep closer to Laurence Sterne than to Henry James. David Antin American Poet More David Antin Quotes 0
Work on good prose has three steps: a musical stage when it is composed, an architectonic one when it is built, and a textile one when it is woven. Walter Benjamin German Critic More Walter Benjamin Quotes 0
For me, a page of good prose is where one hears the rain and the noise of battle. It has the power to give grief or universality that lends it a youthful beauty. John Cheever American Writer More John Cheever Quotes 0