Quotes of: Prose Keyword

I was no longer able to hear the music that issues from a decent piece of prose.

The Angel's Game

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

My Family and Other Animals

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

Selected Letters

Time is not ours and we would not own it. It does not wound us to say so. from the prose poem INNOCENCE

SPAN

I covet truth; beauty is unripe childhood's cheat; I leave it behind with the games of youth.

Prose and Poetry

L'étude du beau est un duel où l'artiste crie de frayeur avant d'être vaincu.

Petits Poemes En Prose

To think that she had read the same elegiac prose he now beheld with such quiet awe made his heart sing.

Posthumous

The very best moment of writing 'Swamplandia!' was when I figured out what the ending should be. And even though I changed the prose of it, that realization was an ice cube melting in my chest.

Karen Russell

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

When I put together a graphic novel, I don't think about literary prose. I think about storytelling.

Ted Rall

I think there's something quite interesting about the almost tragic quality of a lot of overwrought prose, because it has a much more self-conscious awareness of its own failure to touch the real.

China Mieville

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

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

To design is much more than simply to assemble, to order, or even to edit: it is to add value and meaning, to illuminate, to simplify, to clarify, to modify, to dignify, to dramatize, to persuade, and perhaps even to amuse. To design is to transform ...

Paul Rand

If you have a good story idea, don't assume it must form a prose narrative. It may work better as a play, a screenplay or a poem. Be flexible.

Hilary Mantel

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

It has often been observed that the repercussion of poetic language on prose language can be considered a decisive cut of a whip.

Eugenio Montale

Strangely, Dante's Divine Comedy did not produce a prose of that creative height or it did so after centuries.

Eugenio Montale

I find old copies of National Gallery catalogues, which are written in the dryest possible prose, infinitely soothing.

Howard Hodgkin

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

I can manage a prose format as long as I keep closer to Laurence Sterne than to Henry James.

David Antin