Fiction and poetry are the only way one can stop time and…

I like to give and get basically anything (I love to read) but especially fiction and poetry.

— Suzan-Lori Parks

I read pretty eclectically - fiction, non-fiction, and poetry - and I've been inspired and influenced by a number of writers.

— Barry Eisler

Fiction and poetry are my first loves, but the really beautiful lyrical essay can do so much that other forms cannot.

— Chris Abani

I write poetry anyway and have for years and years. For me, putting fiction and poetry together is like the best of both worlds.

— Ellen Hopkins

I have a wonderful editor who believes in fiction and poetry. She herself is a novelist and poet.

— Frederick Busch

I have always felt like an artist when I work on a book. I see no reason why the word should always be confined…

— Barbara Tuchman

I must say that, on the whole, I prefer fiction to poetry.

— Yuriy Tarnawsky

The one thing they didn't tell you at Iowa is how hard it is to make a living writing fiction and poetry.

— Peter Heller

Underneath the forms of fiction and poetry, you can bet your ass the ground comes from someone's actual life experience.

— Lidia Yuknavitch

[Fiction and poetry] are medicines, they're doses, and they heal the rupture that reality makes on the imagination.

— Jeanette Winterson

I had lines inside me, a string of guiding lights. I had language. Fiction and poetry are doses, medicines. What they heal is the…

— Jeanette Winterson

“I searched modern fiction and poetry for clues to how we confronted and evaded reality, how we articulated our experience and turned to language…

— Azar Nafisi

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

Other than fiction and poetry I tend to read history.

— Stephen Dobyns

Fiction and poetry are doses, medicines. What they heal is the rupture reality makes on the imagination

— Jeanette Winterson