#prose

So it is in poetry. All we ask is that the mood recorded shall impress us as having been of the kind that exhausts the imaginative capacity; if it fails to do this the failure will announce itself either in prose or in insignificant verse. ↗

— John Drinkwater

#ask #been #capacity #either #exhausts

My prose is turgid, it just hasn't got any energy. ↗

— Carol Ann Duffy

#energy #got #hasn #just #prose

People say I've had brushes with the law. That's not true. I've had brushes with overzealous prosecutors. ↗

— Edwin W. Edwards

#had #i #law #overzealous #people

There are people who believe in an absolutely transparent prose; with every respect for clarity of expression, I don't. ↗

— John M. Ford

#believe #clarity #every #expression #i

I was a prosecutor and an FBI agent for many, many years. ↗

— Louis Freeh

#fbi #i #many #prosecutor #years

Poetry has the virtue of being able to say twice as much as prose in half the time, and the drawback, if you do not give it your full attention, of seeming to say half as much in twice the time. ↗

— Christopher Fry

#attention #being #drawback #full #give

Because, if one is writing novels today, concentrating on the beauty of the prose is right up there with concentrating on your semi-colons, for wasted effort. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#because #concentrating #effort #novels #prose

I'm demanding to be prosecuted. I'm begging to be prosecuted for perjury. ↗

— George Galloway

#demanding #i #perjury #prosecuted

I derive no pleasure from prosecuting a man, even though I know he's guilty; do you think I could sleep at night or look at myself in the mirror in the morning if I hounded an innocent man? ↗

— Jim Garrison

#derive #even #guilty #hounded #i

We don't attempt to have any theme for a number of the anthology, or to have any particular sequence. We just put in things that we like, and then we try to alternate the prose and the poetry. ↗

— James Laughlin

#anthology #any #attempt #just #like