Kind Quote by Juliana Hatfield

I want my prose to be as clear as a pane of glass.

— Tracy Kidder

I always say that a poet loves the world, and the prose writer needs to create an alternative world.

— Mary Karr

Poetry creates the myth, the prose writer draws its portrait.

— Jean-Paul Sartre

There is probably no finer prose writer alive in Britain now, no-one better at making a sentence, no-one better at descriptive writing, no-one who…

— Linda Grant

The only imaginative prose writer of the slightest value who has appeared among the English-speaking races for some years past.

— George Orwell

“To want to give to prose the rhythm of verse (but keeping it very much prose), and to want to write about ordinary life…

— Gustav Flaubert

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

— Anonymous

I feel very lucky and privileged to be a writer. I feel lucky in the sense that I can branch out into prose and…

— Sam Shepard

“I do very emphatically believe there is an enormous amount of the androgynous in any all-or-nothing prose writer, or even a would-be one.”

— J.D. Salinger

As a prose writer, I work with language; and those who work with language turn to poetry for renewal.

— Samuel R. Delany

Don't scatter your fire! You are a prose writer: stick to your own tool!

— Sarah Orne Jewett

Considerations of plot do a great deal of heavy lifting when it comes to long-form narrative - readers will overlook the most ham-fisted prose…

— Lynn Coady