Prose Quotes

Summer for prose and lemons, for nakedness and languor.

Writing is revision. All prose responds to work.

The most beautiful prose paragraph yet written by any American.

When we share - that is poetry in the prose of life.

Root out all the "to be" verbs in your prose and bludgeon them until dead. No "It was" or "they are" or "I am." Don't let it be, make it happen.

Prose is walking; poetry is flying

Prose proposes, verse reverses.

The best prose is written by authors who see their universe with a poet’s eyes.

Many of today's verses are prose and bad prose.

The writer of prose can only step aside when the poet passes...

My medium is prose, not the novel.

Poetry is prose in slow motion.

Prose is prose because of what it includes; poetry is poetry because of what it leaves out.

My prose is turgid, it just hasn't got any energy

Rich, ornate prose is hard to digest, generally unwholesome, and sometimes nauseating.

Cliches and adjectives permeated my prose.

Eloquence is the poetry of prose.

I've learned about marrying poetry and prose and making both accessible.

All which is not prose is verse; and all which is not verse is prose.

Lincoln, steeped in the Bible and Shakespeare, set an impossibly high bar for presidential prose.

You have to be a ruthless editor of your own prose. Over the years, I've learned that the best way to incorporate research into the narrative is to turn it into action.

A good sentence in prose should be like a good line in poetry, unchangeable, as rhythmic, as sonorous.

I am a poet who composes what life proses, and who proses what life composes.

Prose talks and poetry sings.

Agitation is all about poetry, governance is all about prose.

The poetry from the eighteenth century was prose; the prose from the seventeenth century was poetry.

Poetry must be as well written as prose.

Yet no one hears his own remarks as prose.

I wanted to be a writer. I still want to be a prose writer. I feel I am more temperamentally suited to that kind of life, although there are things I still want to do with music.

I can't be expected to produce deathless prose in an atmosphere of gloom and eucalyptus.

I have to say from the outset that not all prose can be transferred to the screen.

The language of politics is poetry, not prose. Jackson is poetry. Cuomo is poetry. Dukakis is a word processor.

I found it incredibly challenging to write clear prose that had the dynamism that I wanted.

A page of good prose remains invincible.

The more prose I wrote, the more the pendulum swung back toward the middle, merging some poetic sensibilities with the more fundamental elements of creative prose.

If it doesn't work horizontally as prose... it probably won't work any better vertically pretending to be poetry.

Clear prose indicates the absence of thought.

Details are the Life of Prose.

Prose writers are interested mostly in life and commas.

Prose is a poor thing, a poor inadequate thing, compared with poetry which says so much more in shorter time.

I write novellas because I don't like loose sprawling prose.

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.

I don't feel like I have the intelligence to really inhabit a consistently high level of prose.

I prefer my prose evocative rather than simply effective, with a bit of poetry to it.

Nobody has time for your priceless prose. Get to the point.

I like the way the prose and poetry interact.

The unit of the poet is the word, the unit of the prose writer is the sentence.

Good prose is written only face to face with poetry.

When I was writing in Bulgarian, I could hide behind beautiful prose.

Sociological prose can tell you everything, but it can't point out the grief.