prose-writer

In Peter & Max: A Fables Novel, writer Bill Willingham tells a key piece of the story in prose form, and proves that he's every bit as wonderful a prose-writer as he is a comics-writer.

Peter & Max: the Fables comics jump to novel - Boing Boing 2009

I agree that prose alone is not be-all and end-all of a story, but I certainly disagree that Asimov was a good prose-writer.

The Worst Science Fiction Series « It Doesn't Have To Be Right… 2010

Gautier, and De Vigny, have been able to win the double glory of poet and prose-writer, like Racine and Voltaire, Moliere, and

Modeste Mignon 2007

For he is the eldest of the gods, which is an honour to him; and a proof of his claim to this honour is, that of his parents there is no memorial; neither poet nor prose-writer has ever affirmed that he had any.

The Symposium 2006

Digby, the anonymous blogger who may be the finest prose-writer among political bloggers and whose co-blogger, "Tristero," is the distinguished composer Richard Einhorn, had a recent post about the letter the Washington Post's ombudsman received from a Washington lawyer.

Archive 2006-03-01 Jaime J. Weinman 2006

For he is the eldest of the gods, which is an honour to him; and a proof of his claim to this honour is, that of his parents there is no memorial; neither poet nor prose-writer has ever affirmed that he had any.

thispain Diary Entry thispain 2006

To write is essentially to try to "regain" or "hold back" time, and for this purpose the poet has at his disposal means that the prose-writer lacks: meter and caesuras, syntactic pauses, stressed and unstressed syllables.

Joseph Brodsky: A Virgilian Hero, Doomed Never to Return Home 2003

I admire him most exceedingly; and, whether as an epic, dramatic, or lyric poet, or prose-writer, I think I justly apply to him the Nil molitur inepte.

Letters to his son on The Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman 2005

Therefore De Quincey was at odds with the aims of the prose-writer and his morality.

The Common Reader, Second Series 2004

For if we are agreed in allowing some freedom of language to the kind of writer usually called a poet, on what grounds do we refuse it to the prose-writer, to whom we assign only one task: to tell apologetic tales, ignoring meanwhile all other aspects of the nature of this language, which he also has to use as a simple means of communication?

Claude Simon - Nobel Lecture 1985