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.
David Bergen is a master of taut, spare prose that's both erotic and hypnotic. . . .
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.
