#prose

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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

On my recent trip to the Mexico border, Border Patrol agents in California told me they have arrested the same coyotes 20 times, but they are not prosecuted.


Ric Keller


#arrested #border #border patrol #california #me

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

The lines of poetry, the period of prose, and even the texts of Scripture most frequently recollected and quoted, are those which are felt to be preeminently musical.


William Shenstone


#felt #frequently #lines #most #musical

Forty years ago the chances of journalists reporting - or the authorities even prosecuting - a pro athlete were practically nil.


Leigh Steinberg


#athlete #authorities #chances #even #forty

Romance like a ghost escapes touching; it is always where you are not, not where you are. The interview or conversation was prose at the time, but it is poetry in the memory.


George William Curtis


#always #conversation #escapes #ghost #interview

Prosecution I have managed to avoid; but I have been arrested, charged in a police court, have refused to be bound over, and thereupon have been unconditionally released - to my great regret; for I have always wanted to know what going to prison was like.


Laurence Housman


#arrested #avoid #been #bound #charged

Take care of the sounds and the sense will take care of itself.


Lewis Carroll


#nonsense #prose #verse #humor

In the world of Big Macks Starbucks coffee and oversized SUVS it was business as usual snort and go


Saira Viola


#drink-tight #music #business

Maybe he was as mad as he said he was, but she could see only a species of miserable fright. Suddenly, like the thud of a boxing glove on her mouth, she saw how close to the edge of everything he was. The agency was tottering, that was bad enough, and now, on top of that, like a grisly dessert following a putrid main course, his marriage was tottering too. She felt a rush of warmth for him, for this man she had sometimes hated and had, for the last three hours at least, feared. A kind of epiphany filled her. Most of all, she hoped he would always think he had been as mad as hell, and not . . . not the way his face said he felt.


Stephen King


#marriage