Top Prose Quotes
If geography is prose, maps are iconography.
Lennart Meri
I write novellas because I don't like loose sprawling prose.
Jim Harrison
The human brain can soften as a result of incessant listening to music with an intent to commit prose.
Donal Henahan
From the reader's view, a poem is more demanding than prose.
Mark Strand
With prose you can incorporate more details, develop scenes, sustain the tension in a special way. Prose has its own speed.
Robert Morgan
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I write novellas because I don't like loose sprawling prose.
Jim Harrison 
63% of people like this quote
The human brain can soften as a result of incessant listening to music with an intent to commit prose.
Donal Henahan 
62% of people like this quote
From the reader's view, a poem is more demanding than prose.
Mark Strand 
61% of people like this quote
With prose you can incorporate more details, develop scenes, sustain the tension in a special way. Prose has its own speed.
Robert Morgan 
60% of people like this quote
A great actor is independent of the poet, because the supreme essence of feeling does not reside in prose or in verse, but in the accent with which it is delivered.
Lee Strasberg 
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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.
Story Musgrave 
59% of people like this quote
Gil Thorpe is a great diversion and is to book writing as poetry is to prose.
Jerry B. Jenkins 
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