Gemma Files famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Prose exists to convey meaning, and no meaning such as prose conveys can be expressed as well in poetry. That's not poetry's purpose.
I can manage a prose format as long as I keep closer to Laurence Sterne than to Henry James.
The poetry from the eighteenth century was prose; the prose from the seventeenth century was poetry.
The most beautiful prose paragraph yet written by any American.
I prefer my prose evocative rather than simply effective, with a bit of poetry to it.
I tend to get sounds that sound a little bit wrecked.
I can't climb very seriously now but I was a bit of a freak.
I like things to be a little bit absurd. But I don't really like playing covers.
Performances have a bit of a life and a time scale to themselves.
I always managed to fly a bit below the radar, but high enough to avoid colliding into anything.

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