Details Quote by Robert Morgan

Good prose almost always requires both showing and telling, scenes and summary, the two basic components of creative prose.

— Laurie Alberts

Prose is all about embellishing and describing.

— Mike Birbiglia

The older I get, the more I seek to use a plain prose style, concentrating more on story.

— John Scott

Inexperienced fiction and creative nonfiction writers are often told to show, not tell - to write scenes, dramatize, cut exposition, cut summary - but…

— Laurie Alberts

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

Writing a play, you have to retain it all in your head - you need more time. With prose, you can snatch an hour…

— Nell Leyshon

I think when you're writing prose there's a lot of attendant description and that's were I used to really go bananas. With a screenplay…

— Diablo Cody

When you have good writing, the rhythm of the scene is very apparent. What the scene demands is very clear.

— Carrie Coon

I try to write cinematically. Let me define what I mean by that. First of all, I try to write in a visual way…

— Frank Peretti

I can work a lot faster when I'm writing a screenplay than when I'm writing a play because, if I'm having a problem with…

— Zoe Kazan

I always try and bring screenplay, shooting and editing into a sort of symbiotic - as close into alignment as you possibly can get…

— Paul Greengrass

Details are the Life of Prose.

— Jack Kerouac