Quotes on 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.

Author: Samuel Crothers

I write novellas because I don't like loose sprawling prose.

Author: Jim Harrison

A poet or prose narrator usually looks back on what he has achieved against a backdrop of the years that have passed, generally finding that some of these achievements are acceptable, while others are less so.

Author: Eyvind Johnson

I want my prose to be as clear as a pane of glass.

Author: Tracy Kidder

When you finish a poem, it clicks shut like the top of a jewel box, but prose is endless. I haven't experienced an awful lot of clicking shut!

Author: Kenneth Koch

The writer of prose can only step aside when the poet passes.

Author: W. Maugham

All which is not prose is verse; and all which is not verse is prose.

Author: Moliere

Many of today's verses are prose and bad prose.

Author: Eugenio Montale

With prose you can incorporate more details, develop scenes, sustain the tension in a special way. Prose has its own speed.

Author: Robert Morgan

And what holds good of verse holds infinitely better in respect to prose.

Author: James Payn

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.

Author: Philip Pullman

I'm a better polemicist in prose.

Author: Ted Rall

In true prose everything must be underlined.

Author: Karl Schlegel

However, if a poem can be reduced to a prose sentence, there can't be much to it.

Author: James Schuyler

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

Author: John Scott

From the reader's view, a poem is more demanding than prose.

Author: Mark Strand

Life is a journey where we sail through storms to reach the sun-kissed shores of our dreams.

Author: Sofia Rodriguez

Quotes on Prose

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

Always be a poet, even in 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.

I write novellas because I don't like loose sprawling prose.

A poet or prose narrator usually looks back on what he has achieved against a backdrop of the years that have passed, generally finding that some of these achievements are acceptable, while others are less so.

I want my prose to be as clear as a pane of glass.

When you finish a poem, it clicks shut like the top of a jewel box, but prose is endless. I haven't experienced an awful lot of clicking shut!

The writer of prose can only step aside when the poet passes.

All which is not prose is verse; and all which is not verse is prose.

Many of today's verses are prose and bad prose.

With prose you can incorporate more details, develop scenes, sustain the tension in a special way. Prose has its own speed.

And what holds good of verse holds infinitely better in respect to prose.

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.

I'm a better polemicist in prose.

In true prose everything must be underlined.

However, if a poem can be reduced to a prose sentence, there can't be much to it.

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

From the reader's view, a poem is more demanding than prose.

Life is a journey where we sail through storms to reach the sun-kissed shores of our dreams.