On "Prose-Forward" Writing and the Pleasures of Different Genre Conversations
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On "Prose-Forward" Writing and the Pleasures of Different Genre Conversations
What will be the fate of reading? I don’t mean the left-to-right movement of the eyes as we take in information, but the age-old practice of addressing the world by way of this inward faculty of imagination. I mean reading as a filtering of the complexities of the real through artistic narrative, reflection, and orchestration of verbal imagery.
Sven Birkerts • The Gutenberg Elegies: The Fate of Reading in an Electronic Age
A sentence is more than its meaning. It is a line of words where logic and lyric meet – a piece of both sense and sound, even if that sound is heard only in the head. Things often thought to be peculiar to poetry – metre, rhythm, music – are there in prose as well, or should be.
Joe Moran • First You Write a Sentence.: The Elements of Reading, Writing … and Life.
Small Talk will be more conversational, more casual and overall, pure beautiful stream of chaotic consciousness — undercooked brilliance and a total disregard for literary refinement.
Lisa Kholostenko • Introducing: Small Talk
Literature simulates life. A novel is a story of what never was, and a play is a novel without narration. A poem is the expression of ideas or feelings in a language no one uses, because no one talks in verse.