Including Quote by Shelby Foote

I said I have moved on¦but here I am, writing your name on a piece of paper without any reason at all.

— Anonymous

“The range of rhythms in prose is larger and grander than it is in poetry, and it can handle discursive ideas and plain information…

— Annie Dillard

I started writing prose before I started writing television. Then 'Breaking Bad' came around, and to me, writing 'Breaking Bad' is like writing a…

— George Mastras

Good authors, too, who once knew better words Now use only four-letter words Writing prose - Anything goes

— Cole Porter

I don't do much of anything consciously in writing - in poetry writing, anyway, prose usually being a different matter, of course.

— Ron Padgett

Prose is like this big block - you write big paragraphs. I feel that when I'm reading and writing, that a prose book is…

— Bill Callahan

Of all the art forms, poetry is the most economical. It is the one which is the most secret, which requires the least physical…

— Audre Lorde

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

I don't think there's any essential difference, at least for me, between writing poetry and writing prose.

— Jorge Luis Borges

I am interested in the confines of the page and busting through/off the page as well. A writer must let go of the line…

— Denise Duhamel

I love writing prose. I really love writing prose. It's very pleasurable for me.

— Marjorie Liu

For me, poetry is an evasion of the real job of writing prose.

— Sylvia Plath