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Poetry has done enough when it charms, but prose must also convince.


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Eloquence is the poetry of prose.


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Cummings' career as a writer - and a painter - was as wobbly as his love life. He tried his hand at playwriting, satirical essays, and even a dance scenario for Lincoln Kirsten.
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If you are any kind of writer at all, you are in all of your writings.


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Hemingway changed prose; so did Salinger and Nabokov.


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I seriously started drinking probably when I was about twelve. Kids are doing a lot of stuff very early.
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I didn't go out of my way to get into this movie stuff. I think of myself as a writer.


Sam Shepard
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Prose on certain occasions can bear a great deal of poetry; on the other hand, poetry sinks and swoons under a moderate weight of prose.
Walter Savage Landor
Marriage - a book of which the first chapter is written in poetry and the remaining chapters in prose.
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One merit of poetry few persons will deny: it says more and in fewer words than prose.


Voltaire
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I used to write sonnets and various things, and moved from there into writing prose, which, incidentally, is a lot more interesting than poetry, including the rhythms of prose.
Shelby Foote
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They call David O. Russell the actor whisperer because he can get stuff out of actors that maybe some other directors can't.
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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.
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I started writing when I was twenty, and my first book came out seventeen years later.


David Sedaris
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Long before the idea of a writer's conference was a glimmer in anyone's eye, writers learned by reading the work of their predecessors. They studied meter with Ovid, plot construction with Homer, comedy with Aristophanes; they honed their prose style by absorbing the lucid sentences of Montaigne and Samuel Johnson.
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You can't be satirical and not be offensive to somebody.


Tom Lehrer
'Finally' actually started out as a poem. I always wrote poetry, and pretty soon I figured out that if I could write poems, I could write songs.
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I started off doing live TV, so I kind of learnt that if I get myself into trouble, I get myself out of it.
Cat Deeley
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When you're starting off as a young writer, you look at all the stuff that's gone before and the stuff that's influenced you, and you reach the ladle of your imagination into this bubbling stew pot of all of this stuff, and you pour it out. And that's where you start from.
Neil Gaiman