For a long time, I saw writing prose as chewing rocks…

I don't think there's any essential difference, at least for me, between writing poetry and writing prose.

— Jorge Luis Borges

I don't do much of anything consciously in writing - in poetry writing, anyway, prose usually being a different matter, of course.

— Ron Padgett

I approach writing a poem in a much different state than when I am writing prose. It's almost as if I were working in…

— Pattiann Rogers

I started out in life as a poet; I was only writing poetry all through my 20s. It wasn't until I was about 30…

— Paul Auster

I never really saw myself as writing science fiction anyway.

— Nigel Kneale

I loved to write; in my late teens I had a 'zine. But it wasn't until I went back to school, later on in…

— Sonja Sohn

I started writing prose before I started writing television. Then 'Breaking Bad' came around, and to me, writing 'Breaking Bad' is like writing a…

— George Mastras

Good authors, too, who once knew better words Now use only four-letter words Writing prose - Anything goes

— Cole Porter

Prose is like this big block - you write big paragraphs. I feel that when I'm reading and writing, that a prose book is…

— Bill Callahan

Of all the art forms, poetry is the most economical. It is the one which is the most secret, which requires the least physical…

— Audre Lorde

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…

— David Nicholls

I am interested in the confines of the page and busting through/off the page as well. A writer must let go of the line…

— Denise Duhamel

I love writing prose. I really love writing prose. It's very pleasurable for me.

— Marjorie Liu

For me, poetry is an evasion of the real job of writing prose.

— Sylvia Plath

If you wrote a crummy line or maybe didn't sing to the best of your ability, there's layers of 10 different instruments all working…

— Michelle Zauner