445 Quotes About Prose

You'd love a bit of pomp: that way in later years you might invoke end-of-empire ghosts.

Gennia is eating and talking to Ruiz on the phone. Each time he takes a mouthful, he catches a whiff of his shirt, which stinks of failure and yesterday.

Bottom line, when someone defensively says their way of writing is their style, then that usually means they're making an excuse for poor prose.

And when they dusted my mind for your fingerprints they found yours.

Verse is everywhere in language where there is rhythm, everywhere, except in notices and on page four of the papers. In the genre called prose, there are verses [...] of all rhythms. But in truth there is no prose: there is the alphabet, and then verses more or less tight, more or less diffuse.

The problem in this world is that we have poetry but insist on living in prose.

The dust of thirty years hung lifeless in shafts of morning light, the gilding of perfectly prim pages shone incanescent, the shriek of rolling ladders mourned in perennial soliloquy.

Speak without words. Know the weight of words

Three boys. Three deaths. One school. We've made the national news. Is out school cursed? Are we a reckless bunch of fools? The media asks questions no one can answer. Kids can't stop crying.