#prose

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #prose




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

In the plays - that's where I go crazy. But my prose has a much lighter touch; it's not trying to thrill with language, just to be more truthful. I'm not concerned with the accuracy of anything. We don't get to the truth of anything with facts.


Denis Johnson


#anything #concerned #crazy #facts #get

The Martha Stewart trial makes clear how far women have risen in the business world. America can be proud of our equal-opportunity prosecution and conviction.


Rosabeth Moss Kanter


#business #business world #clear #conviction #far

The tradition of Russian literature is also an eastern tradition of learning poetry and prose by heart.


Ryszard Kapuscinski


#eastern #heart #learning #literature #poetry

When I was prosecutor we had truancy and curfew issues and we made a refrigerator magnet, and that was hot with parents. They loved putting it up on the wall and saying, you know, if you don't follow these rules, you could get prosecuted. Whether or not it actually happens, it changes a culture, and that's part of what we're trying to do here.


Amy Klobuchar


#changes #could #culture #follow #get

When you finish a poem, it clicks shut like the top of a jewel box, but prose is endless. I haven't experienced an awful lot of clicking shut!


Kenneth Koch


#box #clicking #clicks #endless #experienced

The prosecutor, who is supposed to carry the burden of proof, really is an author.


Scott Turow


#burden #carry #proof #prosecutor #really

But I have the satisfaction, at the same time, to reflect that the impression to be made depends upon the consistency of the charge and the motives of the prosecutors.


Robert Walpole


#consistency #depends #i #impression #made

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