Prose Narrative Quotes

I believe the novella is the perfect form of prose fiction. It is the beautiful daughter of a rambling, bloated ill-shaven giant (but a giant who's a genius on his best days).

I always like to break out and address the audience. In 'The History Boys', for instance, without any ado, the boys will suddenly turn and talk to the audience and then go back into the action. I find it more adventurous doing it in prose than on the stage, but I like being able to make the reader suddenly sit up.

Lately, I've been thinking about the difference between poetry and prose, and as I've experienced it, poetry is insistent. It allows for images and statements to operate in a single space and resonate powerfully without the application to be elaborated upon and narrated.

The novel is a prose narrative of some length that has something wrong with it.

I believe the novella is the perfect form of prose fiction.

It was not till toward the end of the thirteenth century that the prose romances began to appear.

We allude to the short prose narrative, requiring from a half hour to one or two hours in its perusal