Prose Quotes

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

One merit of poetry few persons will deny: it says more and in fewer words than prose.

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

Gil Thorpe is a great diversion and is to book writing as poetry is to prose.

All I wanted to do was write - at the time, poems, and prose, too. I guess my ambition was simply to make money however I could to keep myself going in some modest way, and I didn't need much, I was unmarried at the time, no children.

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

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

Eloquence is the poetry of prose.

People and places are the source of my work, both in prose and verse-and this remark is not the truism it seems, for I do not distinguish as sharply between a place and a person as most people seem to do.

Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over.

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

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.

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.

And what holds good of verse holds infinitely better in respect to prose.

My plays are made up of long monologues, which is similar to prose working with the language.

I've written a lot of prose. I just haven't published it.

When critics are waiting to pounce upon poetic style on exactly the same grounds as if it were prose, the poets tremble.

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

The process of composition, messing around with paragraphs and trying to make really good prose, is hardwired into my personality.

Stylized acting and direction is to realistic acting and direction as poetry is to prose.

We don't attempt to have any theme for a number of the anthology, or to have any particular sequence. We just put in things that we like, and then we try to alternate the prose and the poetry.

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.

Apart from a few simple principles, the sound and rhythm of English prose seem to me matters where both writers and readers should trust not so much to rules as to their ears.

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!

No, I can't write treatments, I think there's a danger with treatments. That you... you write out your first excitement and enthusiasm in a prose treatment.

Poetry has the virtue of being able to say twice as much as prose in half the time, and the drawback, if you do not give it your full attention, of seeming to say half as much in twice the time.

I really don't have a lot in common with the people who attend the Comic Con. It's like assuming that all people who write prose are the same.

In true prose everything must be underlined.

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.

With prose you can incorporate more details, develop scenes, sustain the tension in a special way. Prose has its own speed.