The great writers of aphorisms read as if they had all known each other well.
It has been said that good prose should resemble the conversation of a well-bred man.
When I put together a graphic novel, I don't think about literary prose. I think about storytelling.
It is perfectly legitimate to write novels which are essentially prose poems, but in the end, I think, a novel is like a car, and if you buy a car and grow flowers in it, you're forgetting that the car is designed to take you somewhere else.
I consider myself an essayist and a fiction writer. In the essays, I certainly have been influenced by some of the leading science essayists. Like Loren Eiseley, Stephen Jay Gould, Lewis Thomas.
My medium is prose, not the novel.
When I write after dark the shades of evening scatter their purple through my prose.
Back in the 1980s, when I was a lowly editorial assistant by day and trying to be a novelist by night, no god reigned so supreme as the god of literary prose.
Melissa Pritchard's prose, that darkly lyrical firmament, is brightened by the dizzy luminous arrangement of her stars and satellites, her great gifts to us: humor, irony, kindness, brilliance.
David Bergen is a master of taut, spare prose that's both erotic and hypnotic. . . .
