Prose Writer Quotes
- I have a much greater ambition to be the best racket player than the best prose writer. — William Hazlitt
- The only imaginative prose writer of the slightest value who has appeared among the English-speaking races for some years past. — George Orwell
- I always say that a poet loves the world, and the prose writer needs to create an alternative world. — Mary Karr
- 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… — Samuel McChord Crothers
- Except by name, Jean Paul Friedrich Richter is little known out of Germany. The only thing connected with him, we think, that has reached this… — Thomas Carlyle
- A prose writer never sees a reader walk out of a book; for a playwright, it's another matter. An audience is an invaluable education. In… — John Lahr
- I certainly derived my skills as a prose writer from my scrutiny of poetry and of the individual word. But schools don't do things like… — Camille Paglia
- Poetry creates the myth, the prose writer draws its portrait. — Jean-Paul Sartre