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I have always tended toward a lush prose style, but I take care to modulate it from story to story and to strip it down entirely when necessary.

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 dialogue.

A lot of times you get people writing wonderful sentences and paragraphs, and they fall in love with their prose style, but the stories really aren't that terrific.

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

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

If you have a good story idea, don't assume it must form a prose narrative. It may work better as a play, a screenplay or a poem. Be flexible.

I don't have a style. I just try to write what the story demands.

I come from a prose background. I come from short story background, and that led me into novels.

I'm becoming more of a novelist as I get older. The novel just seems the truer form. There's less artifice involved.