Differences Quote by Brian Evenson

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

— Virginia Woolf

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

— Robert Morgan

Fiction doesn't appeal to me because it can describe physical appearances exhaustively or because it can offer access to the inner depths of an…

— Ben Lerner

“Women’s fiction” doesn’t sound like anything but a slur to my ears.”

— Sheila Heti

Fiction doesn’t tell us something we don’t know, it tells us something we know but don’t know that we know.

— Walker Percy