Prose Writer Quotes

The only imaginative prose writer of the slightest value who has appeared among the English-speaking races for some years past.

Don't scatter your fire! You are a prose writer: stick to your own tool!

Primarily, I am a prose writer with axes to grind, and the theatre is a good place to do the grinding in. I prefer comedy to 'serious' drama because I believe one can get the ax sharper on the comedic stone.

I'm not as good a prose writer as I'd like to be, but I never aspired to that.

Except by name, Jean Paul Friedrich Richter is little known out of Germany. The only thing connected with him, we think, that has reached this country is his saying,-imported by Madame de Staël, and thankfully pocketed by most newspaper critics,-"Providence has given to the French the empire of the land; to the English that of the sea; to the Germans that of-the air!" Richter: German humorist & prose writer.

As a prose writer, I work with language; and those who work with language turn to poetry for renewal.

I have a much greater ambition to be the best racket player than the best prose writer.