Literature - Other Prose Literature

Other Prose Literature

Philosophical, historical, journalistic, and scientific writings are traditionally ranked as literature. They offer some of the oldest prose writings in existence; novels and prose stories earned the names "fiction" to distinguish them from factual writing or nonfiction, which writers historically have crafted in prose.

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Famous quotes containing the words prose and/or literature:

    “All which is not prose is verse; and all which is not verse is prose.”
    —Molière [Jean Baptiste Poquelin] (1622–1673)

    “I make a virtue of my suffering
    From nearly everything that goes on round me.
    In other words, I know wherever I am,
    Being the creature of literature I am,
    I shall not lack for pain to keep me awake.”
    —Robert Frost (1874–1963)