Prose Quotes

• As there are so many who talk prose without knowing it, or, again, who syllogize without having the least idea what a syllogism is, so economists have long been mathematicians without being aware of the fact.

  

  William Stanley Jevons
  • Long
  • Ideas
  • Facts

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

  

  Thomas Bulfinch
  • Ends
  • Romance
  • Prose

• The tradition of Russian literature is also an eastern tradition of learning poetry and prose by heart.

  

  Ryszard Kapuscinski
  • Heart
  • Literature
  • Tradition

• Poetry must be as well written as prose.

  

  Ezra Pound
  • Poetry
  • Written
  • Prose

• Eloquence is the poetry of prose.

  

  William Cullen Bryant
  • Prose
  • Eloquence

• I think Lindsay Kemp really introduced me to the work of Jean Genet, and through that, I kind of kept re-educating myself about other prose writers and poets.

  

  David Bowie
  • Thinking
  • Kind
  • Poet

• Nor all that heralds rake from coffin'd clay, Nor florid prose, nor honied lies of rhyme, Can blazon evil deeds, or consecrate a crime.

  

  Lord Byron
  • Lies
  • Crime
  • Prose

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

  

  Eugenio Montale
  • Prose
  • Verses

• Good Heavens! For more than forty years I have been speaking prose without knowing it.

  

  Moliere
  • Knowing
  • Prose

• Arnold Rampersad's stunningly revealing biography has, at long last, unveiled-in magisterial prose-the very complex and vulnerable man behind Ralph Ellison's own masks and myths. One of the nation's most brilliant writers emerges as all the more fascinating precisely because he was so very human. Painstakingly researched and compellingly written, Ralph Ellison is a masterwork of the genre of literary biography.

  

  Henry Louis Gates
  • Behinds
  • Brilliant
  • Vulnerable

• He who writes prose builds his temple to Fame in rubble; he who writes verses builds it in granite.

  

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
  • Fame
  • Prose
  • Temple

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

  

  Alex Lemon
  • Write
  • Challenging
  • Prose

• Writing anything is terribly hard but, alas for me, because I am addicted, a heck of a lot of fun. I often am sorry I ever started writing prose, because it is so hard. But I can't stop.

  

  Judy Collins
  • Writing
  • Fun
  • Hard

• Read a lot - poems, prose, stories, newspapers, anything. Read books and poems that you think you will like and some that you think might not be for you. You might be surprised.

  

  Michael Morpurgo
  • Book
  • Stories
  • Might

• 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.

  

  Sara Paretsky
  • Action
  • Prose

• Poetry is prose in slow motion.

  

  Nicholson Baker
  • Poetry
  • Motion
  • Prose

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