I started out as a writer. Poetry and prose and also kind…

I like to mix it up, because the kind of comments you can get from a fiction writer about your poetry are going to…

— Sandra Cisneros

I think I view myself primarily as a fiction writer. Poetry is more of a "hobby," a time of rest from the hard work…

— Yuriy Tarnawsky

I've learned a lot as a writer about poetry.

— Jacqueline Woodson

Gil Thorpe is a great diversion and is to book writing as poetry is to prose.

— Jerry B. Jenkins

When we share - that is poetry in the prose of life.

— Sigmund Freud

Poets seem to write more easily about love than prose writers. For a start, they own that flexible ‘I’…. Then again, poets seem able…

— Julian Barnes

Eloquence is the poetry of prose.

— William C. Bryant

All those authors there, most of whom of course I've never met. That's the poetry side, that's the prose side, that's the fishing and…

— Norman MacCaig

“Lover of poetry, prose and procrastination.”

— Stephen Fitzsimons

There are few greater treasures to be acquired in youth than great poetry-and prose-stored in the memory. At the time one may resent the…

— Richard Livingstone

Poetry is prose, bent out of shape.

— J. Patrick Lewis

I guess I find the boundaries between poetry and prose to be somewhat permeable.

— Kevin Powers

I've learned about marrying poetry and prose and making both accessible.

— Jacqueline Woodson

I started as a writer; I started writing when I was little. The acting and directing was an outgrowth of my desire to tell…

— Mike White

I vividly remember being 14. That was the age when I started to get happy: I started being a writer and stopped being a loser.

— Anthony Horowitz