In Peter & Max: A Fables Novel, writer Bill Willingham tells a key piece of the story in prose form, and proves that he's every bit as wonderful a prose-writer as he is a comics-writer. ❋ Unknown (2009)
I agree that prose alone is not be-all and end-all of a story, but I certainly disagree that Asimov was a good prose-writer. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Gautier, and De Vigny, have been able to win the double glory of poet and prose-writer, like Racine and Voltaire, Moliere, and ❋ Unknown (2007)
For he is the eldest of the gods, which is an honour to him; and a proof of his claim to this honour is, that of his parents there is no memorial; neither poet nor prose-writer has ever affirmed that he had any. ❋ Unknown (2006)
Digby, the anonymous blogger who may be the finest prose-writer among political bloggers and whose co-blogger, "Tristero," is the distinguished composer Richard Einhorn, had a recent post about the letter the Washington Post's ombudsman received from a Washington lawyer. ❋ Jaime J. Weinman (2006)
To write is essentially to try to "regain" or "hold back" time, and for this purpose the poet has at his disposal means that the prose-writer lacks: meter and caesuras, syntactic pauses, stressed and unstressed syllables. ❋ Unknown (2003)
I admire him most exceedingly; and, whether as an epic, dramatic, or lyric poet, or prose-writer, I think I justly apply to him the Nil molitur inepte. ❋ Unknown (2005)
Therefore De Quincey was at odds with the aims of the prose-writer and his morality. ❋ Unknown (2004)
For if we are agreed in allowing some freedom of language to the kind of writer usually called a poet, on what grounds do we refuse it to the prose-writer, to whom we assign only one task: to tell apologetic tales, ignoring meanwhile all other aspects of the nature of this language, which he also has to use as a simple means of communication? ❋ Unknown (1985)
By the press the work was received with general favour; and the author, in evidence that his powers as a prose-writer were not inferior to his efforts as a poet, soon re-appeared in the columns of the _Courier_, as the contributor of various letters on the Northern Fisheries. ❋ Various (N/A)
A poet and indefatigable prose-writer, Thomas Smibert was born in ❋ Various (N/A)
The last great prose-writer of the eighteenth century, Edmund ❋ Robert Huntington Fletcher (N/A)
As a prose-writer, he does not stand high; many of his tales are interesting in their details, but they are too frequently disfigured by a rugged coarseness; yet his pastoral experiences in the "Shepherd's Calendar" will continue to find readers and admirers while a love for rural habits, and the amusing arts of pastoral life, finds a dwelling in the Scottish heart. ❋ Various (N/A)
But besides being a poet he was a great prose-writer. ❋ Unknown (N/A)
It is by the selection of such objects as have in themselves no common bond of union, but which combine to raise a certain emotion, that the essential distinction is to be found between the descriptions of the poet and the prose-writer. ❋ Various (N/A)
I encountered my first misprint, a thing bad enough, in all conscience, to the mere prose-writer, but to the ardent youngster who really believes himself to be adding to the world's store of poetry, a thing wholly intolerable and beyond the reach of words. ❋ David Christie Murray (N/A)
A large, magnificently illustrated volume, the "Clans of the Highlands of Scotland," was his most ambitious and successful effort as a prose-writer. ❋ Various (N/A)
With a more lengthened career, John Bethune would have attained a high reputation, both as an interesting poet and an elegant prose-writer. ❋ Various (N/A)
He was not undesirous of reputation both as a poet and prose-writer, and has recorded his regret that he had devoted so much time to evanescent periodical literature. ❋ Various (N/A)
