Certain Quote by John Updike

Prose is all about embellishing and describing.

— Mike Birbiglia

I always work with text orally in the writing process, saying passages aloud to measure flow.

— Vivek Shraya

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

Good style in prose is always hostage to the precision, speed, and laconic intensity of poetic diction.

— Joseph Brodsky

With prose you can incorporate more details, develop scenes, sustain the tension in a special way. Prose has its own speed.

— Robert Morgan

The flesh of prose gets its shape and strength from the bones of grammar.

— Constance Hale

I think my prose reads as if English were my second language. By the time I get to the end of a paragraph, I'm…

— Lynn Abbey

Prose is something that is persistent in staying in one place long enough to not only zero in on the dramatic effect of something…

— Tracy K. Smith

Speech is as a pump, by which we raise and pour out the water from the great lake of Thought,--whither it flows back again.

— John Sterling

Prose is like hair; it shines with combing.

— Gustave Flaubert

Reading a poem aloud to an audience is gestural as much as precise.

— Douglas Dunn

“... the structure of a page of good prose is, analyzed logically, not something frozen but the vibrating of a bridge, which changes with…

— Robert Musil