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Like most-maybe all- writers, I learned to write by writing and, by example, by reading books.
— Francine Prose
One reason why I like writing poetry - you can say so many things in it that are true in poetry but wouldn't be true in prose.
— Lucy Maud Montgomery
What I do say is that I can write verse, and that the writing of verse in strict form is the best possible training for writing good prose.
— Philip Pullman
Much of the writing of physicists barely reaches the level of prose.
— Steven Weinberg
I want prose fiction to be recognized as that, and I'm not interested in writing as it becomes more personal.
— John C. Hawkes
Poetry and prose are of equal importance to me as a reader, and there doesn't seem to be much difference in my own writing.
— Kevin Powers
And I howled at that swarm and the crops and the sky, and the stars should have quit because there weren't no reason to be shining.
— Chris Howard
Details are the Life of Prose.
— Jack Kerouac
Keep your exclamation points under control. You are allowed no more than two or three per 100,000 words of prose.
— Elmore Leonard
Writers quite often starve. And I'm mainly just writing critical prose and poetry, that's a formula for starvation.
— Clive James
Hundreds of butterflies flitted in and out of sight like short-lived punctuation marks in a stream of consciousness without beginning or end.
— Haruki Murakami
Men will forgive a man anything except bad prose.
— Winston Churchill
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.
— David Nicholls
Most of my writing consists of an attempt to translate aphorisms into continuous prose.
— Northrop Frye
Her life had been too safe to need courage, and too easy to develop resolve.
— Stephen T. Harper
When I write after dark the shades of evening scatter their purple through my prose.
— Cyril Connolly
Writing is revision. All prose responds to work.
— Tracy Kidder
We can write the new chapters in a visual language whose prose and poetry will need no translation.
— Ernst Haas
Prose is like hair; it shines with combing.
— Gustave Flaubert
With prose, I know where I'm starting and I think I know where I'm going.
— Paul T. Scheuring
Writing fiction is an act of imagination and fantasizing, and it's not relating in prose what you've been doing for the last two or three years.
— Bret Easton Ellis
Always be a poet, even in prose.
— Charles Baudelaire
The four great motives for writing prose are sheer egoism, esthetic enthusiasm, historical impulse, and political purpose.
— George Orwell
Good prose should be transparent, like a window pane.
— George Orwell
Only a natural writer could sound as if she is not writing so much as thinking on the page.
— Francine Prose
Good prose almost always requires both showing and telling, scenes and summary, the two basic components of creative prose.
— Laurie Alberts
Behold the onset of my flinty tone. Along with so much else, a soft-tissue sarcoma can apparently drain the exultation from one's prose.
— Jonathan Lethem
Just because everybody uses language, that doesn't mean that they can write even tolerable prose.
— Stephen Jones
Prose is architecture and the Baroque age is over.
— Ernest Hemingway,
A prose that is altogether alive demands something of the reader that the ordinary novel reader is not prepared to give.
— T. S. Eliot
An essential element for good writing is a good ear: One must listen to the sound of one's own prose.
— Barbara Tuchman
And I was troubled by the heavy-handed prose of so much psychoanalytic writing, which seemed drowned in its own concepts.
— Robert Jay Lifton
Poetry is dying first. It'll be absorbed into prose sooner or later.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
I can't allow what we learned in English composition to disrupt the sound and rhythm of the narrative.
— Elmore Leonard
Poetry is a language for when you can't quite write prose about something, you can't quite say it, but if you do a poem, it kind of gets to the point.
— Sakyong Mipham
All writers are like bomb-throwers, whether they attack with dense academic prose or jazzy riffs of stream-of-consciousness writing.
— Betsy Lerner
The age is materialistic. Verse isn't. I must be with the age, so I am writing prose.
— Paul Laurence Dunbar
My preference is for prose with more silence in it, language that contains more pockets of strangeness.
— Anthony Doerr
Most clear writing is a sign that there is no exploration going on. Clear prose indicates the absence of thought.
— Marshall McLuhan
Writing a play, you have to retain it all in your head - you need more time. With prose, you can snatch an hour here, an hour there.
— Nell Leyshon
Good authors, too, who once knew better words now only use four-letter words writing prose ... anything goes.
— Cole Porter
It ain't so easy writing about nothin
— Patti Smith
Programming is the art of writing essays in crystal clear prose and making them executable
— Per Brinch Hansen
The moon hung heavy over the lake like an overripe orange, trickling its golden stream of light across inky depths.
— Julie Lessman
Good ideas ought not to be dressed up in bad prose.
— Barbara Minto
I don't think there's any essential difference, at least for me, between writing poetry and writing prose.
— Jorge Luis Borges
Tighten your prose so the story flows.
— Anna Dobritt
All the elements of good writing depend on the writer's skill in choosing one word instead of another.
— Francine Prose
A prose writer gets tired of writing prose, and wants to be a poet. So he begins every line with a capital letter, and keeps on writing prose.
— Samuel McChord Crothers
Why can't prose be poetic?
— Kevin Focke
Prose before hoes, muthafucka! I'll be right over.
— David Louden
Poetry creates the myth, the prose writer draws its portrait.
— Jean-Paul Sartre
Despite my affection for subtext and plot and prose at its best... life, it turns out, is nothing more than the finer details.
— Bailey Vincent
I do love writing prose interspersed with the poetry of other people. Their rhythms break into my prose and create a connection.
— Pattiann Rogers
i want to bleed ink and shit prose.
— Jonathan Culver
Tell all the truth but tell it slant.
— Emily Dickinson
I suppress in my prose any language which calls attention to itself.
— Jerzy Kosinski
I don't like slapdash careless prose, and if I saw myself doing it, I would give up writing altogether.
— Ruth Rendell
It has been said that good prose should resemble the conversation of a well-bred man.
— W. Somerset Maugham
He who writes prose builds his temple to Fame in rubble; he who writes verses builds it in granite.
— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Why do you always write poetry? Why do you not write prose? Prose is so much more difficult.
— Walter Pater
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— Julie Lessman
Fact-checking is so boring compared to writing fiction.
— Francine Prose
Good writing should be grasped at once - in a second.
— Francine Prose
The tragedy of love is in its ending, the blessing - everything else.
No love ever deserves to end. — Akif Kichloo
I'd always been really intimidated by prose writing.
— David Rees