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Prose Quotes

I’ve already written 300 space poems. But I look upon my ultimate form as being a poetic prose. When you read it, it appears to be prose, but within the prose you have embedded the techniques of poetry Picture Quote #1

Of course, I have to consider that I’ve written a lot of prose, but I do in my heart think of myself as being originally, and still primarily, a poet Picture Quote #1

I feel very lucky and privileged to be a writer. I feel lucky in the sense that I can branch out into prose and tell different kinds of stories and stuff. But being a writer is so great because you’re literally not dependent on anybody Picture Quote #1

The young student sits with his head bent over his books, and his mind straying in youth’s dreamland; where prose is prowling on the desk and poetry hiding in the heart Picture Quote #1

The very best moment of writing ‘Swamplandia!’ was when I figured out what the ending should be. And even though I changed the prose of it, that realization was an ice cube melting in my chest Picture Quote #1

There are lots of guys out there who write a better prose line than I do and who have a better understanding of what people are really like and what humanity is supposed to mean - hell, I know that Picture Quote #1

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If you must write prose or poems, the words you use should be your own. Don’t plagiarize or take ‘on loan’. There’s always someone, somewhere, with a big nose, who knows, who’ll trip you up and laugh when you fall Picture Quote #1

McCarthy’s prose in ‘Blood Meridian’ comes blazing from the Book of Revelation Picture Quote #1

Just because everybody uses language, that doesn’t mean that they can write even tolerable prose Picture Quote #1

Marriage - a book of which the first chapter is written in poetry and the remaining chapters in prose Picture Quote #1

My first book was poetry, but I didn’t write it first. I wrote it third. So my first two books were prose Picture Quote #1

There’s bleeding between age groups in terms of reading material, and there’s bleeding between media. So there are books that are clearly comics and books that are prose, and then there are these books that are kind of in-between Picture Quote #1

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I do love writing prose interspersed with the poetry of other people. Their rhythms break into my prose and create a connection Picture Quote #1

Reviewers have called my books ‘novels in verse.’ I think of them as written in prose, but I do use stanzas. Stanza means ‘room’ in Latin, and I wanted there to be ‘room’ - breathing opportunities to receive thoughts and have time to come out of them before starting again at the left margin Picture Quote #1

Prose, poetry, and drawings stand side by side in a very democratic way in my work Picture Quote #1

Sometimes one has the feeling of an almost supernatural character to the shifts and changes in our national mood. They appear beyond the prose of cause and effect Picture Quote #1

I really don’t have a lot in common with the people who attend the Comic Con. It’s like assuming that all people who write prose are the same Picture Quote #1

The silences express so much and are so crucial in music, and prose does not allow for the creation of these silences, these white spaces on the page or the computer screen Picture Quote #1

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If the rules of a language are followed, words usually make sense. But these very rules can stir the impulse to rebel. We’re obliged to keep trying to convey meaning through correct sentences. After a while, the good-soldier rigidity of polished prose can begin to seem dull, and it gets harder to resist the temptation of nonsense Picture Quote #1

Growing up in Malaysia and England, there wasn’t an obvious route into the comics world, so my creative energy went into theatre and prose and then movies and TV Picture Quote #1

Writers quite often starve. And I’m mainly just writing critical prose and poetry, that’s a formula for starvation Picture Quote #1

I started out in life as a poet; I was only writing poetry all through my 20s. It wasn’t until I was about 30 that I got serious about writing prose. While I was writing poems, I would often divert myself by reading detective novels; I liked them Picture Quote #1

An aphorism is a synthesis of poetry and prose, it is a narrative precipitate, a didactic parable, an ideological concept, in practice it ‘s compressed and zipped philosophy . It is literature that adapts itself to the digital age Picture Quote #1

Strangely, Dante’s Divine Comedy did not produce a prose of that creative height or it did so after centuries Picture Quote #1

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If you have a good story idea, don’t assume it must form a prose narrative. It may work better as a play, a screenplay or a poem. Be flexible Picture Quote #1

Music is more emotional than prose, more revolutionary than poetry. I’m not saying I’ve got the answers, just a of questions that I don’t hear other artists asking Picture Quote #1

In the French language, there is a great gulf between prose and poetry; in English, there is hardly any difference. It is a splendid privilege of the great literary languages Greek, Latin, and French that they possess a prose. English has not this privilege. There is no prose in English Picture Quote #1

There’s a half-conscious state you enter when you’re actually generating prose, and you are simply a better writer in that place. In fact it’s the only place where you even are a writer Picture Quote #1

Fiction isn’t made by scraping the bones of topicality for the last shreds and sinews, to be processed into mechanically recovered prose. Like journalism, it deals in ideas as well as facts, but also in metaphors, symbols and myths Picture Quote #1

When you realize my best selling books are ‘Owl Moon,’ the ‘How Do Dinosaur’ books, and ‘Devil’s Arithmetic,’ how can the public make sense of that! I have fans who think I only write picture books or only write SF and fantasy. I have fanatics of my poetry and are stunned to find out I write prose, too! Picture Quote #1

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I’ve already written 300 space poems. But I look upon my ultimate form as being a poetic prose. When you read it, it appears to be prose, but within the prose you have embedded the techniques of poetry. (Prose Quotes) Of course, I have to consider that I’ve written a lot of prose, but I do in my heart think of myself as being originally, and still primarily, a poet. (Prose Quotes) I feel very lucky and privileged to be a writer. I feel lucky in the sense that I can branch out into prose and tell different kinds of stories and stuff. But being a writer is so great because you’re literally not dependent on anybody. (Prose Quotes) The young student sits with his head bent over his books, and his mind straying in youth’s dreamland; where prose is prowling on the desk and poetry hiding in the heart. (Prose Quotes) The very best moment of writing ‘Swamplandia!’ was when I figured out what the ending should be. And even though I changed the prose of it, that realization was an ice cube melting in my chest. (Prose Quotes) There are lots of guys out there who write a better prose line than I do and who have a better understanding of what people are really like and what humanity is supposed to mean - hell, I know that. (Prose Quotes) If you must write prose or poems, the words you use should be your own. Don’t plagiarize or take ‘on loan’. There’s always someone, somewhere, with a big nose, who knows, who’ll trip you up and laugh when you fall. (Prose Quotes) McCarthy’s prose in ‘Blood Meridian’ comes blazing from the Book of Revelation (Prose Quotes) Just because everybody uses language, that doesn’t mean that they can write even tolerable prose. (Prose Quotes) Marriage - a book of which the first chapter is written in poetry and the remaining chapters in prose. (Prose Quotes) My first book was poetry, but I didn’t write it first. I wrote it third. So my first two books were prose. (Prose Quotes) There’s bleeding between age groups in terms of reading material, and there’s bleeding between media. So there are books that are clearly comics and books that are prose, and then there are these books that are kind of in-between. (Prose Quotes) I do love writing prose interspersed with the poetry of other people. Their rhythms break into my prose and create a connection. (Prose Quotes) Reviewers have called my books ‘novels in verse.’ I think of them as written in prose, but I do use stanzas. Stanza means ‘room’ in Latin, and I wanted there to be ‘room’ - breathing opportunities to receive thoughts and have time to come out of them before starting again at the left margin. (Prose Quotes) Prose, poetry, and drawings stand side by side in a very democratic way in my work (Prose Quotes) Sometimes one has the feeling of an almost supernatural character to the shifts and changes in our national mood. They appear beyond the prose of cause and effect ... (Prose Quotes) I really don’t have a lot in common with the people who attend the Comic Con. It’s like assuming that all people who write prose are the same. (Prose Quotes) The silences express so much and are so crucial in music, and prose does not allow for the creation of these silences, these white spaces on the page or the computer screen. (Prose Quotes) If the rules of a language are followed, words usually make sense. But these very rules can stir the impulse to rebel. We’re obliged to keep trying to convey meaning through correct sentences. After a while, the good-soldier rigidity of polished prose can begin to seem dull, and it gets harder to resist the temptation of nonsense. (Prose Quotes) Growing up in Malaysia and England, there wasn’t an obvious route into the comics world, so my creative energy went into theatre and prose and then movies and TV. (Prose Quotes) Writers quite often starve. And I’m mainly just writing critical prose and poetry, that’s a formula for starvation. (Prose Quotes) I started out in life as a poet; I was only writing poetry all through my 20s. It wasn’t until I was about 30 that I got serious about writing prose. While I was writing poems, I would often divert myself by reading detective novels; I liked them. (Prose Quotes) An aphorism is a synthesis of poetry and prose, it is a narrative precipitate, a didactic parable, an ideological concept, in practice it ‘s compressed and zipped philosophy . It is literature that adapts itself to the digital age. (Prose Quotes) Strangely, Dante’s Divine Comedy did not produce a prose of that creative height or it did so after centuries. (Prose Quotes) If you have a good story idea, don’t assume it must form a prose narrative. It may work better as a play, a screenplay or a poem. Be flexible. (Prose Quotes) Music is more emotional than prose, more revolutionary than poetry. I’m not saying I’ve got the answers, just a of questions that I don’t hear other artists asking. (Prose Quotes) In the French language, there is a great gulf between prose and poetry; in English, there is hardly any difference. It is a splendid privilege of the great literary languages Greek, Latin, and French that they possess a prose. English has not this privilege. There is no prose in English. (Prose Quotes) There’s a half-conscious state you enter when you’re actually generating prose, and you are simply a better writer in that place. In fact it’s the only place where you even are a writer. (Prose Quotes) Fiction isn’t made by scraping the bones of topicality for the last shreds and sinews, to be processed into mechanically recovered prose. Like journalism, it deals in ideas as well as facts, but also in metaphors, symbols and myths. (Prose Quotes) When you realize my best selling books are ‘Owl Moon,’ the ‘How Do Dinosaur’ books, and ‘Devil’s Arithmetic,’ how can the public make sense of that! I have fans who think I only write picture books or only write SF and fantasy. I have fanatics of my poetry and are stunned to find out I write prose, too! (Prose Quotes)

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