"Prose" quotes | Thousands Of Quotes

Search for quotes

Cliches and adjectives permeated my prose.

The Italian prose tale had begun to exercise that influence as early as Chaucer's time: but circumstances and atmosphere were as yet unfavourable for its growth.

George Saintsbury

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.

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

Ted Rall

Literary

Prose

I think Maus I is better than Maus II. The standard here is whether or not it's as good as a great book of prose literature and by that standard, no, it's not that great.

Ted Rall

Literature

Prose

I'm a better polemicist in prose.

Ted Rall

Prose

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.

Poetry seems to sink into us the way prose doesn't. I can still quote verses I learned when I was very young, but I have trouble remembering one line of a novel I just finished reading.

Good authors, too, who once knew better words now only use four-letter words writing prose... anything goes.

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.

Harvey Pekar

People

Prose

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

James Payn

Prose

Respect

The atmosphere of orthodoxy is always damaging to prose, and above all it is completely ruinous to the novel, the most anarchical of all forms of literature.

George Orwell

Literature

Prose

It is also true that one can write nothing readable unless one constantly struggles to efface one's own personality. Good prose is like a windowpane.

In the television age, the key distinction is between the candidate who can speak poetry and the one who can only speak prose.

Richard M. Nixon

Poetry

Age