Difficult Quote by Truman Capote

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

— John Scott

I found it incredibly challenging to write clear prose that had the dynamism that I wanted.

— Alex Lemon

I do write a lot of prose. It's not disciplined enough yet that it's actually become stories, or short stories. The idea of writing…

— PJ Harvey

In my younger days, I was trying to write sophisticated prose and fantastic stories.

— Haruki Murakami

I believe the novella is the perfect form of prose fiction.

— Ian Mcewan

I'm very interested in writing - it just takes so much discipline, whether it's short stories or novels.

— Conor Oberst

“I am a storyteller, for better and for worse. I suspect that a feeling for stories, for narrative, is a universal human disposition, going…

— Oliver Sacks

Writing is a difficult trade which must be learned slowly by reading great authors; by trying at the outset to imitate them; by daring…

— Andre Maurois

“I think this story-writing business is the foolishest yet," scoffed Marilla. "You'll get a pack of nonsense into your heads and waste time that…

— L. M. Montgomery

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

It is also true that one can write nothing readable unless one constantly struggles to efface one's own personality. Good prose is like a…

— George Orwell

“A short story is not a portrayal of life. When life becomes disconsolate and the fear for the unknown seeps through the holes on…

— Anu Lal