Young writers often suppose that style is a garnish for…

Histories never conclude; they just pause their prose. Their stories are, if they are truthful, untidy affairs, resistant to windings-up and sortings-out. They beat…

— Simon Schama

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

— David Hare

“[A]lways get to the dialogue as soon as possible. I always feel the thing to go for is speed. Nothing puts the reader off…

— P.G. Wodehouse

The aim of good prose words is to mean what they say. The aim of good poetical words is to mean what they do…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Mr Witwould: "Pray, madam, do you pin up your hair with all your letters? I find I must keep copies." Mrs Millamant: "Only with…

— William Congreve

Many people become bankrupt through having invested too heavily in the prose of life. To have ruined one's self over poetry is an honor.

— Oscar Wilde

The richly cadenced prose is hypnotic, the research prodigious, the analysis acute, the mood spellbinding, and the cast of characters mythic in scale. I…

— Ron Chernow

when a poem says something that could not have been said in any other way, in music, prose, sculpture, movement or paint, then it…

— Sybil Marshall

My husband makes fun of me, because I know I can use strong prose to jazz-hand my way through plot that isn't as interesting…

— Kelly Sue DeConnick

To design is much more than simply to assemble, to order, or even to edit: it is to add value and meaning, to illuminate,…

— Paul Rand

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…

— Kenneth Koch

Prose is when all the lines except the last go on to the end. Poetry is when some of them fall short of it.

— Jeremy Bentham

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

“Don’t be afraid of your struggles, they are making you dangerously strong and wise. They are preparing you for your superpowers. Let them happen,…

— Melody Lee

The snow was too light to stay, the ground too warm to keep it. And the strange spring snow fell only in that golden…

— Shannon Hale