Concentrating Quote by John Scott

I have always tended toward a lush prose style, but I take care to modulate it from story to story and to strip it…

— Jeff VanderMeer

The older I get and the more fiction I write, the more I outline, the more I think about plot before I dive in…

— Dave Barry

I always was interested in prose. As a teenager, I published short stories. And I always wanted to write the long short story, I…

— Sylvia Plath

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

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

— Laurie Alberts

In my younger days, I was trying to write sophisticated prose and fantastic stories.

— Haruki Murakami

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 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

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've gotten used to spending more time with heavily narrative stories.

— Joshuah Bearman

My writing is different. I think it's better. I think it's deeper. But, strangely enough, it covers a lot of the old ground. Maybe…

— Neil Diamond

When seriously explored, the short story seems to me the most difficult and disciplining form of prose writing extant. Whatever control and technique I…

— Truman Capote