Delicious Prose Quotes

#1. It was not pitch-black. It was the kind of cloudy night where the clouds seem to gather up light from distant streetlights and houses below, and throw it back at the earth.

Neil Gaiman

#2. What writer wants to make compromises with story? Story is the only reason you're in it.

David Simon

#3. My publishers, two Catalan brothers with an inherited income, took me out to lunch to inform me that the first print run would be only five hundred copies. Five hundred readers? I accept! And the lunch was delicious.

Francine Prose

#4. Truth be told, the inward gaze is something she's not too fond of. But there are secrets that lurk in the mind, and she doesn't want any of them sneaking up on her. Sometimes it pays to take a deep look inside even if you get queasy gazing into those dark corners.

Alden Bell

#5. Yet, it is true, poetry is delicious; the best prose is that which is most full of poetry.

Virginia Woolf

#6. Sporting chivalrous contest helps knit the bonds of peace between nations. Therefore may the Olympic flame never expire.

Adolf Hitler

#7. Come on, you Do you want to live forever?

Carl Sandburg

#8. I must remember to be troublesome now and again, else you are going to be impossible to live with. And by what magic did you find the gown and the horse?"
"Scottish fairy magic." His grin widened.
"Do you mean that fairies are real in Scotland?

Shelly Thacker

#9. All novelists write in a different way, but I always write in longhand and then do two versions of typescript on a computer.

Martin Amis

#10. 'No Flex Zone' is when somebody walks in and accuses you of stealing their cellphone, and you didn't, and you know in your pocket you have enough money to buy their cellphone, and you have your own.

Slim Jimmy

#11. If I kept on looking at his bare chest any longer, I'd officially earn my Hussy Merit Badge.

Mariana Zapata

#12. I will not go down to posterity talking bad grammar.

Benjamin Disraeli

#13. It's important to say that actors can't act alone, it's impossible. What we have to do is support each other.

Philip Seymour Hoffman

#14. Three things to help keep your brain cells awake and alert ... drink plenty of clean water, get plenty of deep sleep, and let your imagination soar to places it's never dared venture.

Toni Sorenson

#15. Keep your southern fried bullshit to yourself. And know this, Charlie is the sweetest girl I've ever met and if you hurt her, or infect her with some kind of disease, you will die. Slowly.

Eve Dangerfield

#16. Economists have much to be humble about.

Paul Samuelson

#17. Yomi awoke filled with the reckless energy of someone with little left to lose

Labake Akinyosoye

#18. I know this is my signature move, but it really does read much better in the original.

Manny Rayner