#prose

Passage of time can be mind-numbing to figure out in a screenplay. It's the easiest thing to do in prose, not just by writing 'four years later', but you can shift time in a sentence or two. ↗

— Mark Boal

#easiest thing #figure #four #just #later

It is only the inadequacy of the criminal code that saves the hackers from very serious prosecution. ↗

— Ken Thompson

#criminal #hackers #inadequacy #only #prosecution

I think the prosecution had all the evidence in front of them to have won the case. ↗

— Kato Kaelin

#evidence #front #had #i #i think

My plays are made up of long monologues, which is similar to prose working with the language. ↗

— Elfriede Jelinek

#long #made #monologues #plays #prose

Gil Thorpe is a great diversion and is to book writing as poetry is to prose. ↗

— Jerry B. Jenkins

#book writing #diversion #great #poetry #prose

Every neurosis is a primitive form of legal proceeding in which the accused carries on the prosecution, imposes judgment and executes the sentence: all to the end that someone else should not perform the same process. ↗

— Lionel Trilling

#carries #else #end #every #form

It is not certain whether the effects of totalitarianism upon verse need be so deadly as its effects on prose. There is a whole series of converging reasons why it is somewhat easier for a poet than a prose writer to feel at home in an authoritarian society.[...]what the poet is saying- that is, what his poem "means" if translated into prose- is relatively unimportant, even to himself. The thought contained in a poem is always simple, and is no more the primary purpose of the poem than the anecdote is the primary purpose of the picture. A poem is an arrangement of sounds and associations, as a painting is an arrangement of brushmarks. For short snatches, indeed, as in the refrain of a song, poetry can even dispense with meaning altogether. ↗

— George Orwell

#literature #orwell #poet #poetry #prose

Afghanistan had collapsed and everyone's life now lies broken at different levels within the rubble. ↗

— Nadeem Aslam

#prose #war #life

Eloquence is the poetry of prose. ↗

— William C. Bryant

#poetry #prose

Prose is architecture and the Baroque age is over. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

#hemingway #minimalism #prose #writing #age