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• With engaging prose, Engelman takes readers on a delightful journey?that both entertains and educates ? of modern civilization and women's central role to ensuring the economic and social well-being of their families, communities, nations and the global community.

  Geeta Rao Gupta

  Journey, Civilization, Community

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• Prose is not necessarily good because it obeys the rules of syntax, but it is fairly certain to be bad if it ignores them.

  Wilson Follett

  Syntax, Certain, Ifs

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• Poetry seems to sink into us the way prose doesn't. I can still quote verses I learned when I was very young, but I have trouble remembering one line of a novel I just finished reading.

  Jack Prelutsky

  Reading, Writing, Lines

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• In mauve sea-orchids as in her striking earlier book Guardians of the Secret, Lila Zemborain brings into relationship the viscera of the body and the spill of the universe in tense compositions that blur distinctions between lyric and prose poetry, between science and eros.

  Forrest Gander

  Book, Prose Poetry, Sea

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• I suppress in my prose any language which calls attention to itself.

  Jerzy Kosinski

  Writing, Attention, Language

  Jerzy Kosinski, Tom Teicholz (1993). “Conversations with Jerzy Kosinski”, p.29, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Prose of the World is an enormously compelling and vivid study. The result is an ambitious, timely, and eloquent account of the relationship between early-twentieth-century fiction and the contemporary global novel in English.

  Rebecca L. Walkowitz

  Ambitious, Vivid, Fiction

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• If you have feelings about reading, you feel the rhythm of prose or of a poem like music. It awakens something in your soul and then of course you study, read, you grow up and you begin to understand the message and that is the first step towards understanding life.

  Maria Kodama

  Growing Up, Reading, Understanding

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• And I was troubled by the heavy-handed prose of so much psychoanalytic writing, which seemed drowned in its own concepts.

  Robert Jay Lifton

  Writing, Heavy, Psychoanalytic

  Robert Jay Lifton (2011). “Witness to an Extreme Century: A Memoir”, p.14, Simon and Schuster

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• I am a poet who composes what life proses, and who proses what life composes.

  Khalil Gibran

  Life, Poet

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• Inexperienced fiction and creative nonfiction writers are often told to show, not tell - to write scenes, dramatize, cut exposition, cut summary - but it can be misguided advice. Good prose almost always requires both showing and telling, scenes and summary, the two basic components of creative prose

  Laurie Alberts

  Writing, Cutting, Creative Nonfiction

  Laurie Alberts (2010). “Showing & Telling: Learn How to Show & When to Tell for Powerful & Balanced Writing”, p.1, Writer's Digest Books

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• In an idealized world, we would all be able to do what our English teachers told us to do, which is to write beautiful prose where enthusiasm is conveyed by word choice and grammar.

  Will Schwalbe

  Beautiful, Teacher, Writing

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• EPIGRAM, n. A short, sharp saying in prose or verse, frequently characterize by acidity or acerbity and sometimes by wisdom.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Wisdom, Sometimes, Verses

  Ambrose Bierce (2009). “The Devil's Dictionary: Easyread Large Bold Edition”, p.71, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Nobody brings ancient history and archaeology to life like Adrienne Mayor. From the Russian steppes to China, and from Roman Egypt and Arabia to the Etruscans, she leads the reader on a breathtaking quest for the real ancient warrior women reflected in myths--their daring, archery, tattoos, fine horses, and independence from male control. The book's rich erudition, communicated in sparkling prose and beautiful illustrations, makes it a riveting read.

  Edith Hall

  Tattoo, Beautiful, Horse

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• Writing for the page is only one form of writing for the eye. Wherever solemn inscriptions are put up in public places, there is a sense that the site and the occasion demand a form of writing which goes beyond plain informative prose. Each word is so valued that the letters forming it are seen as objects of solemn beauty.

  James Fenton

  Writing, Eye, Demand

  "The eyes have it" by James Fenton, www.theguardian.com. November 1, 2002.

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• The Last Of England works with image and sound, a language which is nearer to poetry than prose. It tells its story quite happily in silent images, in contrast to a word-bound cinema.

  Derek Jarman

  Sound, Cinema, Stories

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• When I first wanted to be a writer, I learned to write prose by reading poetry.

  Nicholson Baker

  Reading, Writing, Firsts

  "A life in writing" by Nicholas Wroe, www.theguardian.com. September 18, 2009.

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• Keep your exclamation points under control. You are allowed no more than two or three per 100,000 words of prose.

  Elmore Leonard

  Writing, Exclamation Points, Two

  "Elmore Leonard's rules for writers". www.theguardian.com. February 24, 2010.

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• A probing analysis of the problems of evolution forms the basis of my prose.

  Johannes V. Jensen

  Analysis, Evolution, Problem

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• A work of fiction should be, for its author, a journey into the unknown, and the prose should convey the difficulties of the journey.

  Anthony Burgess

  Journey, Fiction, Should

  Anthony Burgess (1986). “Homage to QWERT YUIOP: essays”, Vintage

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• Hundreds of butterflies flitted in and out of sight like short-lived punctuation marks in a stream of consciousness without beginning or end.

  Haruki Murakami

  Butterfly, Sight, Punctuation Marks

  FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Jun 18, 2015

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• What a poor appearance the tales of poets make when stripped of the colours which music puts upon them, and recited in simple prose.

  Plato

  Music, Simple, Simplicity

  Plato (2016). “The Republic”, p.485, Xist Publishing

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• Juliet is one of those rare novels that has it all: lush prose, tightly intertwined parallel narratives, intrigue, and historical detail all set against a backdrop of looming danger. Anne Fortier casts a new light on one of history's greatest stories of passion. I was swept away.

  Sara Gruen

  Passion, Light, Historical

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• From the reader's view, a poem is more demanding than prose.

  Mark Strand

  Book, Views, Reader

  "In The Presence Of America: A Conversation With Mark Strand". Interview with Katharine Coles, weberstudies.weber.edu. 1992.

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• The best prose is written by authors who see their universe with a poet’s eyes.

  Vera Brittain

  Eye, Poet, Written

  Vera Brittain (1948). “On being an author”

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• For me, a page of good prose is where one hears the rain and the noise of battle. It has the power to give grief or universality that lends it a youthful beauty.

  John Cheever

  Grief, Rain, Writing

  Accepting National Medal for Literature, en.wikiquote.org. April 27, 1982.

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