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#prose

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #prose




With prose you can incorporate more details, develop scenes, sustain the tension in a special way. Prose has its own speed.


Robert Morgan


#develop #incorporate #more #own #prose

Drug smugglers often use juveniles to carry their shipments into the U.S. because they know the juveniles will not be prosecuted if caught.


Timothy Murphy


#carry #caught #into #know #often

You can always count on a murderer for a fancy prose style.


Vladimir Nabokov


#count #fancy #prose #style #you

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


Cole Porter


#authors #better #four-letter #goes #good

Always be a poet, even in prose.


Charles Baudelaire


#always #even #poet #prose

Yet, it is true, poetry is delicious; the best prose is that which is most full of poetry.


Virginia Woolf


#delicious #full #most #poetry #prose

The most important tribute any human being can pay to a poem or a piece of prose he or she really loves is to learn it by heart. Not by brain, by heart; the expression is vital.


George Steiner


#being #brain #expression #heart #human

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.


Philip Pullman


#form #good #good prose #i #i can

All I wanted to do was write - at the time, poems, and prose, too. I guess my ambition was simply to make money however I could to keep myself going in some modest way, and I didn't need much, I was unmarried at the time, no children.


Paul Auster


#children #could #going #guess #however

I write novellas because I don't like loose sprawling prose.


Jim Harrison


#i #i write #like #loose #prose






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