Then I discovered I loved writing poetry more than fiction.

I think that it's more likely that in my 60s and 70s I will be writing poetry rather than fiction.

— Robert Morgan

I saw 'On The Town' about nine times. I discovered it. I loved it. I was in college.

— Harold Prince

The whole point of writing poetry or fiction is that you get to agonize over whatever it is you want to say, and you…

— Nick Laird

The happiest I've ever felt was that moment I discovered she loved me too.

— Ellie Goulding

The happiest I've ever felt was that moment I discovered you loved me too.

— Anonymous

I am all the time thinking about poetry and fiction and you.

— Virginia Woolf

I spend most of my time reading non-fiction of all sorts. Then poetry. Then fiction to blurb. Then fiction I want to read.

— Jim Shepard

There is poetry in fiction. If you cannot see it and feel it when you write, you need to step back and examine what…

— Terry Brooks

One of the primary differences for me between fiction and poetry is that fiction uses every sort of tool that poetry does but hides…

— Brian Evenson

I think it's true that that's something that poetry can go to school on fiction. I think poetry can go to fiction to learn.

— Edward Hirsch

It was actually a women's writing group I belonged to in graduate school that gave me the courage to move from poetry to fiction.

— Mary Gordon

I guess it was easier for me to find my voice in poetry than it was in fiction. I'm working on fiction again, and…

— Barbara Hamby

I don't want to write poems that are just really clear about how I'm aware of all the traps involved in writing poetry; I…

— Ben Lerner

As a teenager, I loved acting, painting, photography, and making films with my friend's Super 8 camera. But I always loved writing the best.…

— Denise Duhamel

I've always been a writer and have always loved writing.

— Shaun King