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Prose Quotes

"I can manage a prose format as long as I keep closer to Laurence Sterne than to Henry James."

"I can manage a prose format as long as I keep closer to Laurence Sterne than to Henry James."

David Antin, American Poet

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"A prose writer gets tired of writing prose, and wants to be a poet. So he begins every line with a capital letter, and keeps on writing prose."

"A prose writer gets tired of writing prose, and wants to be a poet. So he begins every line with a capital letter, and keeps on writing prose."

Samuel McChord Crothers, American Essayist

Prose, Writer, Writing

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"I'm a better polemicist in prose."

"I'm a better polemicist in prose."

Ted Rall, American Cartoonist

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"In true prose everything must be underlined."

"In true prose everything must be underlined."

Karl Schlegel, German Philosopher

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"With prose you can incorporate more details, develop scenes, sustain the tension in a special way. Prose has its own speed."

"With prose you can incorporate more details, develop scenes, sustain the tension in a special way. Prose has its own speed."

Robert Morgan, American Soldier

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"All which is not prose is verse; and all which is not verse is prose."

"All which is not prose is verse; and all which is not verse is prose."

Moliere, French Playwright

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"The older I get, the more I seek to use a plain prose style, concentrating more on story."

"The older I get, the more I seek to use a plain prose style, concentrating more on story."

John Scott, American Politician

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"The writer of prose can only step aside when the poet passes."

"The writer of prose can only step aside when the poet passes."

W. Somerset Maugham, British Playwright

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