Prose Writing Quotes (page 2)

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• single
• writing
• words

I spend eight months outlining and researching the novel before I begin to write a single word of the prose. Jeffery Deaver

• good
• writing
• words

Good authors, too, who once knew better words now only use four-letter words writing prose... anything goes. Cole Porter

• style
• writing
• bad

The newspaper is, in fact, very bad for one's prose style. That's why I gravitated towards feature stories where you get a little more leeway in the writing style. Tom Wolfe

• writing
• people
• common

I really don't have a lot in common with the people who attend the Comic Con. It's like assuming that all people who write prose are the same. Harvey Pekar

• writing
• personality
• personal

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 windowpane. George Orwell

• personality
• writing
• personal

I want prose fiction to be recognized as that, and I'm not interested in writing as it becomes more personal. John C. Hawkes

• change
• stress
• hand

I was born left-handed, but I was made to use my other hand. When I was writing 'Famished Road,' which was very long, I got repetitive stress syndrome. My right wrist collapsed, so I started using my left hand. The prose I wrote with my left hand came out denser, so later on I had to change it. Ben Okri

• writing
• writings
• likely

I write novellas because I don't like loose sprawling prose. Jim Harrison

• writing
• calm
• wonder

Criticism is, for me, like essay writing, a wonderful way of relaxation; it doesn't require a heightened and mediated voice, like prose fiction, but rather a calm, rational, even conversational voice. Joyce Carol Oates

• book
• poetry
• greatness

Gil Thorpe is a great diversion and is to book writing as poetry is to prose. Jerry B. Jenkins

• money
• ambition
• making money

All I wanted to do was write - at the time, poems, and prose, too. I guess my ambition was simply to make money however I could to keep myself going in some modest way, and I didn't need much, I was unmarried at the time, no children. Paul Auster