445 Quotes About Prose

I knew it was a day of endings, one way or another.

You couldn't make up something that looked so right.

You take what you can get, I reckon. You take what you can get.

The city they are building asks you to stay; remind yourself what is worth keeping, while the lighthouse of your moan warns the ship of your heart that he is a stone.

Later when they would mention, they would say, and everyone would know, but not nearly as well as they meant.

The punter sweated on top of Marina, his lips all over her young body, his tongue slipping out from rows of crooked teeth, pushing hungrily from between his shrivelled lips like a clam from a shell, a bottom feeder searching for salty nutrition.

Poetry is more than a form of art. It's a vibration and a pulsing heart. Whether it's sour or whether it's sweet. It can give you strength no one can defeat

Ett ärr är vad som uppstår när ordet blir kött.

I've always liked police-blotter kind of writing, or the writing of a policeman, right to the point and hardboiled. That's how I see at least the prose elements of scriptwriting.