Famous quotes containing the words prose and/or fiction:
“Poetry has done enough when it charms, but prose must also convince.”
—H.L. (Henry Lewis)
“The private detective of fiction is a fantastic creation who acts and speaks like a real man. He can be completely realistic in every sense but one, that one sense being that in life as we know it such a man would not be a private detective.”
—Raymond Chandler (1888–1959)