Prose Quote by Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

In prose, I think you sometimes have to write in very plain language, where every line may not seem to be so important, though…

— Grace Paley

I remember being taught in school that you would underline things that you liked. I remember just underlining everything as a kid, thinking, 'This…

— Paul Thomas Anderson

“Outlining, in short, is not merely a way of organizing ideas but is also a way of getting ideas.”

— Sylvan Barnet

Prose is all about embellishing and describing.

— Mike Birbiglia

A good sentence in prose should be like a good line in poetry, unchangeable, as rhythmic, as sonorous.

— Gustave Flaubert

In prose, if you forget a line, you can say something else in the same context.

— Puneet Issar

“Prose consists less and less of words chosen for the sake of their meaning, and more and more of phrases tacked together like the…

— George Orwell

“When it comes to writing, clarity trumps all rules.”

— C.E.McLean

“This is not at all bad, except as prose.”

— Gore Vidal

The writer considers sayability before anything else.

— Mason Cooley

The boldness of endurance is the underline to almost every success.

— Mary Anne Radmacher

No blur of inexactness, no cloud of vagueness, is allowable in good writing; from the first seeing to the last putting down, there must…

— Eudora Welty