Raz was one of those vanguard human beings of indeterminate ethnicity, the magnificent mutts that I hope we are all destined to become given another millennium of intermixing. His skin was a rich pecan color from his dad, who was part African American and part native Hawaiian. His hair, straight and glossy black, and the almond shape of his eyes came from his Japanese grandmother. But their color was the cool blue he'd inherited from his mum, a Swedish windsurfing champion.
Geraldine BrooksMots clés prose
You know that sickening feeling of inadequacy and over-exposure you feel when you look upon your own empurpled prose? Relax into the awareness that this ghastly sensation will never, ever leave you, no matter how successful and publicly lauded you become. It is intrinsic to the real business of writing and should be cherished.
Will SelfMots clés writing prose self-criticism inadequacy critical exposure
He turns and walks away, moving so quickly that the candle flames shiver with the motion of the air. “I miss you,” Isobel says as he leaves, but the sentiment is crushed by the clatter of the beaded curtain falling closed behind him.
Erin MorgensternMots clés prose
A breeze blew through the room, blew curtains in at one end and out the other like pale flags, twisting them up towards the frosted wedding-cake of the ceiling, and then rippled over the wine-coloured rug, making a shadow on it as wind does on the sea.
F. Scott FitzgeraldMots clés beauty prose great-gatsby everyday-objects great-prose
The displacement of water is equal to the something of something.
William FaulknerMots clés poetic the-sound-and-the-fury prose william-faulkner
Hundreds of butterflies flitted in and out of sight like short-lived punctuation marks in a stream of consciousness without beginning or end.
Haruki MurakamiMots clés writing descriptive flying prose butterflies
Ett ärr är vad som uppstår när ordet blir kött.
Leonard CohenMots clés prose
Behind the perfection of a man's style, must lie the passion of a man's soul.
Oscar WildeMots clés style passion writing soul prose walter-pater
Prose: words in their best order; poetry: the best words in the best order.
Samuel Taylor ColeridgeMots clés poetry language expression prose
The fact is that certain themes cannot be celebrated in words, and tyranny is one of them. No one ever wrote a good book in praise of the Inquisition.
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