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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.

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

Prose talks and poetry sings.

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.

In some sense, prose fiction is just a way of unlocking a space. If I can unlock the space, it comes out and it's vivid, I find that I care about it, and it's part of me.

Cliches and adjectives permeated my prose.

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

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.

When I put together a graphic novel, I don't think about literary prose. I think about storytelling.

When you have an idea for a story, you want those characters to reach as many people as you can. I think you normally think of prose as a way of doing that. It fits our time, the culture.