Beautiful Prose Quotes

#1. 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

#2. It is not a waste to write beautiful prose or poetry for one person's eyes alone!

Edith Schaeffer

#3. And now more than anything I want beautiful prose. I relish it more and more exquisitely.

Virginia Woolf

#4. The most beautiful prose paragraph yet written by any American.

Harold Bloom

#5. I think you can talk forever about style, technique and beautiful prose, but surely in the final analysis one thing matters above all else - is it a page-turner?

Jamie Holoran

#6. The lessons learned in journalism also apply. Writing for NPR has taught me to cut a piece in half and then in half again - without losing the essence. Apply that to the swollen prose of a bulky novel and you might reveal a beautiful work.

Julianna Baggott

#7. And I howled at that swarm and the crops and the sky, and the stars should have quit because there weren't no reason to be shining.

Chris Howard

#8. Some stories aren't meant to be told. The more they get told, the more they change from what they once were, worn down and smooth like pieces of sea glass too beautiful to have ever been broken bottles.

Caren Gussoff

#9. through the rose glass window in their beautiful new home, you stare at the love you gave away.

AVA.

#10. This world can be quite wonderful once you let yourself be a part of it.

Charlotte Eriksson

#11. We never believe we're beautiful, no matter how many times we hear it. We never believe it until someone says it in the right way.

Francine Prose

#12. Verse in itself does not constitute poetry. Verse is only an elegant vestment for a beautiful form. Poetry can express itself in prose, but it does so more perfectly under the grace and majesty of verse. It is poetry of soul that inspires noble sentiments and noble actions as well as noble writings.

Victor Hugo

#13. let your love cover me like skin.
i want the whole world to see.

AVA.

#14. I have to thank you ... because you have so often helped me forget the evils of today.

Francesco Petrarca

#15. He appreciated all beautiful things. As she stood before him poised, scrutinizing every inch of his face, liable to strike him, he thought she was the most incredible thing he had seen in his life. She didn't step away from fear, she walked up to it.

Nicki Salcedo

#16. ... and now and then we could look up and give each other a thought,
because I think he could have beautiful thoughts,
and we could just let each other be less lonely in our loneliness.

Charlotte Eriksson

#17. i wanted to destroy you.

you are mine to ruin.
something so beautiful
should only exist for me.

AVA.

#18. Around the outside of the room other beautiful women wearing little or nothing at all flitted between the infatuated, intoxicated men, sometimes luring them away for a private dance. The men would follow obediently, weighed down by lust and credit cards.

R.D. Ronald

#19. Poetry is a beautiful way of spoiling prose, and the laborious art of exchanging plain sense for harmony.

Horace Walpole

#20. oh, the heartbreakingly beautiful
tender weight of being human.

AVA.

#21. You don't just wake up one morning and decide to become a singer-songwriter.

Karen Elson

#22. The moon hung over the planet Earth, a dead thing over a dying thing.

John Fowles

#23. Money, which represents the prose of life, and which is hardly spoken of in parlors without an apology, is, in its effects and laws, as beautiful as roses.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#24. My writing could be the most beautiful or important piece of prose, but it means nothing if it's boring, if people aren't listening or reading. I think transporting someone, putting them in a story for a few hours, taking them out of their worlds, is what I always strive to do.

Victoria Aveyard

#25. The condition and characteristic of an uninstructed person is this: he never expects from himself profit (advantage) nor harm, but from externals. The condition and characteristic of a philosopher is this: he expects all advantage and all harm from himself.

Epictetus

#26. Desire, burning desire, is basic to achieving anything beyond the ordinary.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

#27. I believe the novella is the perfect form of prose fiction. It is the beautiful daughter of a rambling, bloated ill-shaven giant (but a giant who's a genius on his best days).

Ian McEwan

#28. Mom is a planner, an organizer. She's very strong and practical. She's the person that'll tell me if I ever start to change my personality. The balance of the two of them created my personality.

Taylor Swift

#29. Two: Distract yourself. Paris has something for everyone. Let's imagine you are feeling slightly disenchanted with women. Dozens of places will persuade you that a beautiful woman is nothing more than a beautiful man in a dress.

Francine Prose

#30. you giver of light.
you lover of love.

you beautiful
beautiful
human being
you.

AVA.

#31. The moon hung heavy over the lake like an overripe orange, trickling its golden stream of light across inky depths.

Julie Lessman

#32. I gripped against her like she was metal and I was all full of lightning, charged up and jagged and of that moment alone.

Chris Howard

#33. [T]welve year old Libby O'Shea coasted on a homemade swing, toes touching a blinding-blue heaven dolloped with clouds.

Julie Lessman

#34. The snow was too light to stay, the ground too warm to keep it. And the strange spring snow fell only in that golden moment of dawn, the turning of the page between night and day.

Shannon Hale

#35. Nobody on the road. Nobody on the beach. I feel it in the air, the summer's out of reach.

Don Henley