Quotes About Prose

The older I get, the more I seek to use a plain prose style, concentrating more on story.

It is a way we reassess our past. We can do that in poetry in ways we can't do in prose.

He can develop sense and style, in the manner of distinguished modern prose, in which event he may be sure that the result will not fall into any objective form.

The process of composition, messing around with paragraphs and trying to make really good prose, is hardwired into my personality.

Lincoln, steeped in the Bible and Shakespeare, set an impossibly high bar for presidential prose.

I'm a better polemicist in prose.

Passage of time can be mind-numbing to figure out in a screenplay. It's the easiest thing to do in prose, not just by writing 'four years later', but you can shift time in a sentence or two.

I believe so deeply in the primacy of language, in lifting your prose to the highest level you're capable of and making your words symphonic.

So I really began as a failed poet - although when I first wanted to be a writer, I learned to write prose by reading poetry.

Because I write prose, when I sat down to write a comic, it feels like my brain's working differently. It actually feels like different bits of my head are springing into action.

If there's anything I'm keen to get better at in my writing, then it's the writing of prose as opposed to the writing of dialogue.

'At the Gates of the Animal Kingdom' by Amy Hempel showed me the lean quality of prose.

I read a lot of autobiographical stories, and I write plays and prose. And I play piano and cello. A lot of my downtime is devoted to that.

My experience is that prose usually equals duty - last minute, overdue-deadline stuff or a panic lecture to be written.

I can manage a prose format as long as I keep closer to Laurence Sterne than to Henry James.

For me, writing essays, prose and fiction is a great way to be self-indulgent.

I think graphic novels are closer to prose than film, which is a really different form.

I've always liked police-blotter kind of writing, or the writing of a policeman, right to the point and hardboiled. That's how I see at least the prose elements of scriptwriting.

I really - I don't take my work that seriously, and I think that's what keeps me loose. If I try to write, if I catch myself trying to write, I'll fall right on my face. I'll see it. If I see in the prose that I'm - 'Boy, look at me writing,' I rewrite it. I rewrite it because I don't, because I think it's distracting.

In prose, I think you sometimes have to write in very plain language, where every line may not seem to be so important, though in all writing every line is important.

The poetic prose that most interests me is that of Henri Michaux.

There's a half-conscious state you enter when you're actually generating prose, and you are simply a better writer in that place. In fact it's the only place where you even are a writer.

I don't like slapdash careless prose, and if I saw myself doing it, I would give up writing altogether.

I think poetry should be read very much like prose, except that the line breaks should be acknowledged somehow.