Quotes with prose

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  • James Kelman The beauty of prose fiction that I see is simply that in order to create something you need only pay attention to personal exigency.
    James Kelman
    Scottish writer (1946 - )
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  • George Orwell The four great motives for writing prose are sheer egoism, esthetic enthusiasm, historical impulse, and political purpose.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Virginia Woolf The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mold of the body and mind.
    Virginia Woolf
    English writer (1882 - 1941)
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  • David Hare The poetry from the eighteenth century was prose; the prose from the seventeenth century was poetry.
    David Hare
    British Playwright, Director (1947 - )
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  • Louis Ferdinand Céline To hell with reality! I want to die in music, not in reason or in prose. People don't deserve the restraint we show by not going into delirium in front of them. To hell with them!
    Louis Ferdinand Céline
    French writer (1894 - 1961)
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  • Walter Benjamin Work on good prose has three steps: a musical stage when it is composed, an architectonic one when it is built, and a textile one when it is woven.
    Walter Benjamin
    German philosopher (1892 - 1940)
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  • Bret Easton Ellis Writing fiction is an act of imagination and fantasizing, and it's not relating in prose what you've been doing for the last two or three years.
    Bret Easton Ellis
    American author, screenwriter, short-story writer, and director (1964 - )
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  • Mario Cuomo You campaign in poetry. You govern in prose.
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  • Vladimir Nabokov You can always count on a murderer for a fancy prose style.
    Vladimir Nabokov
    American writer and poet (1899 - 1977)
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