Art Quote by Barbara Tuchman

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 think the term "artist's novel" for me has referred to writing which supports an art practice or a more specifically a particular artwork…

— Jill Magid

The way something looks or sounds is also what it means. Words as visual and aural phenomena, which mainly poets, not critics and prose…

— Masha Tupitsyn

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

— Yuriy Tarnawsky

When I start to write, words have become physical presence. It was to see if I could bring that private world to life that…

— John McGahern

I know I'm not a wordsmith. And I don't write poetry. Sometimes I think I should, because it's really helpful. But I always wanted…

— Candace Bushnell

I say sometimes that I'm a poet but I work in the novel form. That's what I do. That's what makes sense to me.…

— Douglas A. Martin

I never paid attention when people said, "That's gotta be poetry. That's gotta be fiction," except when I was in a graduate program, and…

— Sandra Cisneros

I've always considered myself a nonfiction artist.

— Anonymous

When I sit down to write, I consider myself an artist.

— Barbara Kingsolver

I think fiction goes to poetry for the intensity of its use of language.

— Edward Hirsch

Writing is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness. I don't think an artist can ever be happy.

— Georges Simenon