Duty Quote by Seamus Heaney

We allude to the short prose narrative, requiring from a half hour to one or two hours in its perusal

— Edgar Allan Poe

Writing is revision. All prose responds to work.

— Tracy Kidder

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

Prose is all about embellishing and describing.

— Mike Birbiglia

Prose is not necessarily good because it obeys the rules of syntax, but it is fairly certain to be bad if it ignores them.

— Wilson Follett

If there's anything I'm keen to get better at in my writing, then it's the writing of prose as opposed to the writing of…

— David Nicholls

Details are the Life of Prose.

— Jack Kerouac

I am always urging my students to honor their writing practice, to set up a schedule.

— Tayari Jones

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

— Laurie Alberts

With prose you can incorporate more details, develop scenes, sustain the tension in a special way. Prose has its own speed.

— Robert Morgan

It is a good thing to write for the amusement of the public, but it is a far higher and nobler thing to write…

— Mark Twain

The duty and the task of a writer are those of an interpreter.

— Marcel Proust