#prose

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When critics are waiting to pounce upon poetic style on exactly the same grounds as if it were prose, the poets tremble.


John C. Ransom


#exactly #grounds #poetic #poets #prose

They've got him - credible witnesses, documents, heaven knows what else. In all my years as a prosecutor I have never seen such an open-and-shut case.


Elliot Richardson


#credible #documents #else #got #heaven

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 was a prosecutor in Brooklyn in the homicide division and then as a senior assistant district attorney.


Star Jones


#attorney #brooklyn #district #district attorney #division

Cormac McCarthy's language is perfect. He is in my view the greatest living American prose stylist.


Tommy Lee Jones


#greatest #language #living #mccarthy #perfect

I want my prose to be as clear as a pane of glass.


Tracy Kidder


#glass #i #pane #prose #want

The Italian prose tale had begun to exercise that influence as early as Chaucer's time: but circumstances and atmosphere were as yet unfavourable for its growth.


George Saintsbury


#begun #chaucer #circumstances #early #exercise

One of the best known, and one of the least intelligible, facts of literary history is the lateness, in Western European Literature at any rate, of prose fiction, and the comparative absence, in the two great classical languages, of what we call by that name.


George Saintsbury


#any #best #call #classical #comparative

The older I get, the more I seek to use a plain prose style, concentrating more on story.


John Scott


#get #i #more #older #plain

Occasionally I find a travel book that is both illuminating and entertaining, where vivid writing and research replace self-indulgence and sloppy prose.


Arthur Smith


#both #entertaining #find #i #illuminating