It was actually a women's writing group I belonged to in…

“the members of my writing group—provided three years of encouragement, careful reading, good advice, and friendship that sustained me.”

— Anita Diamant

Ive tried to write deep and serious. I spent years working to write a story that would make my writing group cry.

— Jim C. Hines

I've tried to write deep and serious. I spent years working to write a story that would make my writing group cry.

— Jim C. Hines

My second husband encouraged me to go to a writing group at our local theatre. It was my 'coming out of the closet' moment.

— Sue Townsend

If you're a writer, the insight of other writers - if there's some kind of Holy Grail message on how to deal with writer's…

— Jim Rash

I'm not a writing group member, not a joiner in that way. I don't seek a wide swath of feedback.

— Claire Messud

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

Then I discovered I loved writing poetry more than fiction.

— George Murray

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

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

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

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

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

— Robert Morgan

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

— Virginia Woolf