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Prose Quotes


"I can manage a prose format as long as I keep closer to Laurence Sterne than to Henry James."


"The writer of prose can only step aside when the poet passes."


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


"With prose you can incorporate more details, develop scenes, sustain the tension in a special way. Prose has its own speed."


"All which is not prose is verse; and all which is not verse is prose."
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