Prose Quotes

Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over.

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.

I'm a better polemicist in prose.

Always be a poet, even in prose.

For me, prose walks, poetry dances.

Eloquence is the poetry of prose.

My prose is turgid, it just hasn't got any energy.

Prose talks and poetry sings.

The poetry from the eighteenth century was prose; the prose from the seventeenth century was poetry.

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

My early prose style - this is so embarrassing - was sort of a suburban, Presbyterian knockoff of Woody Allen.

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

If geography is prose, maps are iconography.

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.

Cliches and adjectives permeated my prose.

In true prose everything must be underlined.

I've written a lot of prose. I just haven't published it.