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"I can manage a prose format as long as I keep closer to Laurence Sterne than to Henry James."
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"All which is not prose is verse; and all which is not verse is prose."
"The writer of prose can only step aside when the poet passes."
"With prose you can incorporate more details, develop scenes, sustain the tension in a special way. Prose has its own speed."
"The older I get, the more I seek to use a plain prose style, concentrating more on story."
"I can manage a prose format as long as I keep closer to Laurence Sterne than to Henry James."
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"Children frequently sing meaningful phrases to themselves over and over again before they learn to make a distinction between singing and saying."
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"For several centuries what has passed for song in literary circles was any text that looked like the lyrics for a commonplace melodic setting."
"My mother turned into a professional widow. She couldn't understand why I wanted to be an engineer; she thought I should be a chicken farmer."
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"I didn't think about whether I was writing poems. I was thinking. And the more I was thinking, the more there was I didn't understand."
"A myth is the name of a terrible lie told by a smelly little brown person to a man in a white suit with a pair of binoculars."
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