Format Quote by David Antin

I write longer sentences than most of the others, maybe because I probably like Henry James more than they do.

— Peter Straub

I have a much greater ambition to be the best racket player than the best prose writer.

— William Hazlitt

My medium is prose, not the novel.

— David Shields

Prose writers are interested mostly in life and commas.

— Ursula K. Le Guin

I'm a big admirer of Daniel Woodrell for his beautiful, precise, sparse prose - I don't do succinct well, so I'm in awe of…

— Tana French

That freedom of writing you don't get in other formats, I'd rather leave it to someone else to deal with the headache of drafting…

— Ashwin Sanghi

I'm not as good a prose writer as I'd like to be, but I never aspired to that.

— Mark Waid

Im lucky enough to work with, I think, the greatest writer theres ever been, Shakespeare. Whose collected works would always be under my pillow…

— Samuel West

If you want to support a writer, produce the first five plays he writes.

— August Wilson

It is also true that one can write nothing readable unless one constantly struggles to efface one's own personality. Good prose is like a…

— George Orwell

I write heavily under the influence of James Taylor.

— Carole King

I'm lucky enough to work with, I think, the greatest writer there's ever been, Shakespeare. Whose collected works would always be under my pillow…

— Samuel West