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Prose is something that is persistent in staying in one place long enough to not only zero in on the dramatic effect of something that might have happened, or something that might have been seen, but also in watching how it played out and thinking about the cause and the effect.

There is a musical rhythm to great writing, especially if it's performed correctly.

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.

There's a half-conscious state you enter when you're actually generating prose, and you are simply a better writer in that place. In fact it's the only place where you even are a writer.

However, if a poem can be reduced to a prose sentence, there can't be much to it.

For me writing is a question of finding a certain rhythm. I compare it to the rhythms of jazz.

I've written a lot of prose. I just haven't published it.

I rely heavily on rhythm when I write. You should tap your foot when you read it, all the way through.

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.

I don't like slapdash careless prose, and if I saw myself doing it, I would give up writing altogether.