prose ache

It's really interesting when you read books that are made up of interviews or transcriptions of people speaking about some topic or person, because the syntax of speech is so very different to that of written texts. It's more like a kind of poetry. You can be so much more expressive in fewer words when you speak, but I guess part of that is due to tone of voice and other non-verbal language, which sometimes makes transcriptions of spoken word difficult to understand. 

But overall, I think direct transcriptions of spoken language are understandable and more evocative than prose.