Care Quote by Jeff VanderMeer

The older I get, the more I seek to use a plain prose style, concentrating more on story.

— John Scott

A lot of times you get people writing wonderful sentences and paragraphs, and they fall in love with their prose style, but the stories…

— James Patterson

Good prose almost always requires both showing and telling, scenes and summary, the two basic components of creative prose.

— Laurie Alberts

My style is colloquial storytelling. It's the way we tell stories to one another - it's not writerly, it's not overdone.

— James Patterson

I want prose fiction to be recognized as that, and I'm not interested in writing as it becomes more personal.

— Anonymous

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

— Jim Harrison

The beauty of prose fiction that I see is simply that in order to create something you need only pay attention to personal exigency.

— James Kelman

I love seeing the light go on in aspiring writers' eyes when you point out ways to improve their prose or their story -…

— F. Paul Wilson

In writing a weird story, I always try very carefully to achieve the right mood and atmosphere and place the emphasis where it belongs.

— H. P. Lovecraft

I use a lot of narration; I have a very prosaic style. I like to get you invested in the character first and do…

— Scott Snyder

I think in reading a few sentences of text you can just tell the tone, and that's something I love in prose writers.

— Lauren Mayberry

I purposely adopted a style in my storytelling wherein I don't have to explain everything or why the story is moving in a particular…

— Shoojit Sircar