Quotes by Prose Sociological prose can tell you everything, but it can't point out the grief. Robert Bly sociological prose grief If it doesn't work horizontally as prose... it probably won't work any better vertically pretending to be poetry. Robert Breault pretending prose poetry And I was troubled by the heavy-handed prose of so much psychoanalytic writing, which seemed drowned in its own concepts. Robert Jay Lifton prose heavy writing I don't do much of anything consciously in writing - in poetry writing, anyway, prose usually being a different matter, of course. Ron Padgett prose different writing 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 prose action According to [Maxine Hong] Kingston, the prose writer is "a workhorse." Shirley Geok-lin Lim prose When we share - that is poetry in the prose of life. Sigmund Freud prose caring share The poetry of life must not be replaced with matter-of-fact prose. Steve Grand prose matter facts The unit of the poet is the word, the unit of the prose writer is the sentence. Susan Sontag prose units poet I'm a better polemicist in prose. Ted Rall prose Writing is revision. All prose responds to work. Tracy Kidder revision prose writing Prose writers are interested mostly in life and commas. Ursula K. Le Guin prose The best prose is written by authors who see their universe with a poet’s eyes. Vera Brittain prose poet eye Prose is a poor thing, a poor inadequate thing, compared with poetry which says so much more in shorter time. Vita Sackville-West inadequate prose poor And now more than anything I want beautiful prose. I relish it more and more exquisitely. Virginia Woolf prose want beautiful The writer of prose can only step aside when the poet passes... W. Somerset Maugham prose poet steps Yet no one hears his own remarks as prose. W. H. Auden prose remarks listening Eloquence is the poetry of prose. William C. Bryant eloquence prose Rich, ornate prose is hard to digest, generally unwholesome, and sometimes nauseating. William Strunk, Jr. prose rich sometimes Prose is not necessarily good because it obeys the rules of syntax, but it is fairly certain to be bad if it ignores them. Wilson Follett prose syntax certain «12345»
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