Fire Quote by Sarah Orne Jewett

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

— George Orwell

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

I wanted to be a writer. I still want to be a prose writer. I feel I am more temperamentally suited to that kind…

— Juliana Hatfield

I'm not as good a prose writer as I'd like to be, but I never aspired to that.

— Mark Waid

A prose writer gets tired of writing prose, and wants to be a poet. So he begins every line with a capital letter, and…

— Samuel McChord Crothers

According to [Maxine Hong] Kingston, the prose writer is "a workhorse."

— Shirley Geok-lin Lim

I certainly derived my skills as a prose writer from my scrutiny of poetry and of the individual word. But schools don't do things…

— Camille Paglia

“I believe you can consider yourself a successful prose writer when the number of words you put on a page each day is equal…

— Roman Payne

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

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

— Samuel R. Delany

“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

Failure is a tool that life uses to weed out thosewho do not truly deserve success

— Senoraroy

Reclassification is the best way to for us to preserve the Internet as an unfettered tool for communication and the sharing of ideas.

— Chuck Schumer