Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A writer of prose; a prosaist.
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Examples
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Therefore De Quincey was at odds with the aims of the prose-writer and his morality.
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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?
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