Always be a poet, even in prose.
Charles Baudelaire
Prose is all about embellishing and describing.
Mike Birbiglia
For me, writing essays, prose and fiction is a great way to be self-indulgent.
Diablo Cody
My prose is turgid, it just hasn't got any energy.
Carol Ann Duffy
The poetry from the eighteenth century was prose; the prose from the seventeenth century was poetry.
David Hare
I write novellas because I don't like loose sprawling prose.
Jim Harrison
Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over.
Ernest Hemingway
My plays are made up of long monologues, which is similar to prose working with the language.
Elfriede Jelinek
Poetry privileges music and is aesthetically more challenging. Prose privileges information and is emotionally more challenging.
Mary Karr
I want my prose to be as clear as a pane of glass.
Tracy Kidder