Prose Writing Quotes

Prose Writing Quote of the day

it wasn't by accident that the Gettysburg address was so short.

It wasn't by accident that the Gettysburg address was so short. The laws of prose writing are as immutable as those of flight, of mathematics, of physics.

one reason why I like writing poetry - you can say so many things in it that are true in poetry but wouldn't be true in prose.

I'd always been really intimidated by prose writing.

For a long time, I saw writing prose as chewing rocks compared to the velocities of writing poetry.

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

When I write after dark", observed Cyril Connolly, "the shades of evening scatter their purple through my prose

I suppress in my prose any language which calls attention to itself.

The words in prose ought to express the intended meaning, and no more; if they attract attention to themselves, it is, in general, a fault.