Attention Quote by Nick Hornby

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

— Anonymous

The great thing about writing is, if you don't like the world, we'll create a different one.

— Richard Bach

As writers, the world is not about individual expression entirely because we are producing works of literature and getting them out into the world.

— Alison Hawthorne Deming

“Prose fiction is something you build up from twenty-six letters and a handful of punctuation marks, and you, and you alone, using your imagination,…

— Neil Gaiman

Prose is all about embellishing and describing.

— Mike Birbiglia

As a writer, you owe it to yourself not to get stuck in a rut of looking at the world in a certain way.

— Hilary Mantel

There's a half-conscious state you enter when you're actually generating prose, and you are simply a better writer in that place. In fact it's…

— John Jeremiah Sullivan

Literature delivers tidings of the world within and the world without.

— George Henry Lewes

Literature provides us with experiences it would not be wise or possible to introduce into our own world and thus enlarges our understanding of…

— Louise Rosenblatt

Even in my most solipsistic moments, I don't regard my literary debut as a matter of global interest.

— Rebecca Front

The writer studies literature, not the world.

— Annie Dillard