Endure Quote by Robert Caro

I've always felt that no one understands why some books of non-fiction endure and some don't, because there's not much understanding among many non-fiction…

— Robert Caro

A prose that is altogether alive demands something of the reader that the ordinary novel reader is not prepared to give.

— T. S. Eliot

“If someone likes my fiction more for the quality of my prose rather than the quality of my storytelling, I'm doing something wrong.”

— Jamie Ford

A masterpiece of fiction is an original world and as such is not likely to fit the world of the reader.

— Vladimir Nabokov

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

In some sense, prose fiction is just a way of unlocking a space. If I can unlock the space, it comes out and it's…

— Ben Marcus

The one thing fiction and non-fiction writing have in common for me is that sense of trying to get the sentences to be minimal…

— George Saunders

“The glory of fiction is in its falseness, but the impact of fiction is found in its painful reality.”

— R.W.K. Clark

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

— Anonymous

“The one thing is fiction in a novel and the other thing is reality. With fiction you don't make a fuss - you can…

— Anonymous

I think there's something quite interesting about the almost tragic quality of a lot of overwrought prose, because it has a much more self-conscious…

— China Mieville

Prose is like a window; fiction is like a door. But it is not uncommon that he who should come in through the door…

— Mu Xin