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

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

"All which is not prose is verse; and all which is not verse is prose."

"I can manage a prose format as long as I keep closer to Laurence Sterne than to Henry James."

"The writer of prose can only step aside when the poet passes."
Explore more quotes by Samuel McChord Crothers

"Try as hard as we may for perfection, the net result of our labors is an amazing variety of imperfectness. We are surprised at our own versatility in being able to fail in so many different ways."

"A prose writer gets tired of writing prose, and wants to be a poet. So he begins every line with a capital letter, and keeps on writing prose."
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