Enough Quote by Tracy K. Smith

Prose is when all the lines except the last go on to the end. Poetry is when some of them fall short of it.

— Jeremy Bentham

Prose is all about embellishing and describing.

— Mike Birbiglia

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

“Prose fiction is something you build up from twenty-six letters and a handful of punctuation marks, and you, and you alone, using your imagination,…

— Neil Gaiman

Prose-it might be speculated-is discourse; poetry ellipsis. Prose is spoken aloud; poetry overheard.

— Joyce Carol Oates

Details are the Life of Prose.

— Jack Kerouac

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

— Laurie Alberts

Prose is prose because of what it includes; poetry is poetry because of what it leaves out.

— Marvin Bell

The old prose writers wrote as if they were speaking to an audience; while, among us, prose is invariably written for the eye alone.

— Reinhold Niebuhr

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

“...prose unfolds in time; and time contains both obstacles and revelations. Prose develops, the way characters and situations do. It requires a flow. A…

— Molly Peacock

Prose is not to be read aloud but to oneself alone at night, and it is not quick as poetry but rather a gathering…

— Henry Green