Prose Quotes
On clarity, craft, and the shape of prose.
These prose quotes focus on clarity and craft, including the ambition to write prose "as clear as a pane of glass." It connects naturally with Structure quotes for readers interested in how writing is built.
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It was not till toward the end of the thirteenth century that the prose romances began to appear.
Emotion Quotes
My early prose style - this is so embarrassing - was sort of a suburban, Presbyterian knockoff of Woody Allen.
Expression Quotes
A probing analysis of the problems of evolution forms the basis of my prose.
However, if a poem can be reduced to a prose sentence, there can't be much to it.
Identity Quotes
It has often been observed that the repercussion of poetic language on prose language can be considered a decisive cut of a whip.
The poetry from the eighteenth century was prose; the prose from the seventeenth century was poetry.
Structure Quotes
McCarthy's prose in 'Blood Meridian' comes blazing from the Book of Revelation.
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Two quotes define prose by contrast with verse, and one traces the historical rise of prose romances by the late thirteenth century. For more on how writers convey feeling through form, see Emotion quotes.
