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• Poetry and prose are of equal importance to me as a reader, and there doesn't seem to be much difference in my own writing.

  Kevin Powers

  Writing, Differences, Importance

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• I believe so deeply in the primacy of language, in lifting your prose to the highest level you're capable of and making your words symphonic.

  Dennis Lehane

  Believe, Levels, Language

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• I'm a better polemicist in prose.

  Ted Rall

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• When I put together a graphic novel, I don't think about literary prose. I think about storytelling.

  Ted Rall

  Writing, Thinking, Together

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• In some sense, prose fiction is just a way of unlocking a space. If I can unlock the space, it comes out and it's vivid, I find that I care about it, and it's part of me.

  Ben Marcus

  Space, Fiction, Care

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• I think there's something quite interesting about the almost tragic quality of a lot of overwrought prose, because it has a much more self-conscious awareness of its own failure to touch the real.

  China Mieville

  Real, Thinking, Self

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• I think graphic novels are closer to prose than film, which is a really different form.

  Denise Mina

  Thinking, Different, Film

  "‘Dragon Tattoo’: Denise Mina on Larsson, feminist crime fiction". Interview with Noelene Clark, herocomplex.latimes.com. December 13, 2012.

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• Let my life as Poet begin. I want the life of the Poet. I have labored for over twelve years, one thousand pages of prose. Now, I want the easiness of poetry. The brevity of the poem.

  Maxine Hong Kingston

  Years, Twelve, Want

  Maxine Hong Kingston (2009). “To Be the Poet”, p.3, Harvard University Press

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• City of prose and fantasy, of capitalist automation, its streets a triumph of cubism, its moral philosophy that of the dollar. New York impressed me tremendously because, more than any other city, it is the fullest expression of our modern age.

  Leon Trotsky

  New York, Philosophy, Expression

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• I always say that a poet loves the world, and the prose writer needs to create an alternative world.

  Mary Karr

  Needs, Alternatives, World

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• I guess I find the boundaries between poetry and prose to be somewhat permeable.

  Kevin Powers

  Boundaries

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• Poetry is its own medium; it's very different than writing prose. Poetry can talk in an imagistic sense; it has particular ways of catching an environment.

  Story Musgrave

  Writing, Prose Poetry, Different

  "NASA Distinguished Service Medal". The Academy of Achievement Interview in Baltimore, Maryland, www.achievement.org. May 22, 1997.

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• The Italian prose tale had begun to exercise that influence as early as Chaucer's time: but circumstances and atmosphere were as yet unfavourable for its growth.

  George Saintsbury

  Exercise, Italian, Atmosphere

  George Saintsbury (2012). “The English Novel”, p.44, tredition

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• Histories never conclude; they just pause their prose. Their stories are, if they are truthful, untidy affairs, resistant to windings-up and sortings-out. They beat raggedly on into the future.

  Simon Schama

  Sorting Out, Stories, Truthful

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• My preference is for prose with more silence in it, language that contains more pockets of strangeness.

  Anthony Doerr

  Silence, Pockets, Language

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• Every country in the world loved the folklore of the West--the music, the dress, the excitement, everything that was associated with the opening of a new territory. It took everybody out of their own little world. The cowboy lasted a hundred years, created more songs and prose and poetry than any other folk figure. The closest thing was the Japanese samurai. Now, I wonder who'll continue it.

  John Wayne

  Country, Song, Cowboy

  John Wayne, Carol Lea Mueller (2007). “The Quotable John Wayne: The Grit and Wisdom of an American Icon”, p.33, Taylor Trade Publications

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• To overcome the academic prose you have first to overcome the academic pose.

  C. Wright Mills

  Overcoming, Firsts, Academic

  C. Wright Mills (2000). “The Sociological Imagination”, p.219, Oxford University Press

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• To write? Because all this is going to vanish. The only thing left will be the prose and poems, the books, what is written down. Man was very fortunate to have invented the book. Without it the past would completely vanish, and we would be left with nothing, we would be naked on earth.

  James Salter

  Book, Writing, Past

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• You know that fiction, prose rather, is possibly the roughest trade of all in writing. You do not have the reference, the old important reference. You have the sheet of blank paper, the pencil, and the obligation to invent truer than things can be true. You have to take what is not palpable and make it completely palpable and also have it seem normal and so that it can become a part of experience of the person who reads it.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Writing, Important, Paper

  Ernest Hemingway, Carlos Baker (2003). “Ernest Hemingway Selected Letters 1917-1961”, p.837, Simon and Schuster

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• The word 'creative' refers simply to the use of literary craft in presenting nonfiction—that is, factually accurate prose about real people and events—in a compelling, vivid manner. To put it another way, creative nonfiction writers do not make things up; they make ideas and information that already exist more interesting and, often, more accessible.

  Lee Gutkind

  Real, Ideas, Creative Nonfiction

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• It was not till toward the end of the thirteenth century that the prose romances began to appear.

  Thomas Bulfinch

  Romance, Century, Ends

  Thomas Bulfinch (2012). “Bulfinch's Medieval Mythology: The Age of Chivalry”, p.9, Courier Corporation

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• The language of politics is poetry, not prose. Jackson is poetry. Cuomo is poetry. Dukakis is a word processor.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Language, Processors

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• A Wedding In Haiti is a great experience and its unaffected prose is as true a portrait of complex Haiti as you will find.

  Mark Kurlansky

  Portraits, Haiti, Great Experiences

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• Who all in raptures their own works rehearse, And drawl out measur'd prose, which they call verse.

  Charles Churchill

  Poet, Rapture, Verses

  Charles Churchill (1774). “Works”, p.206

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• The language of prose is very different than the language of cinema, so the movie has to successfully translate what was in the book.

  Yann Martel

  Book, Different, Cinema

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. November 6, 2007.

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