Long Quote by David Biespiel

Writing is an exercise in sculpture, chipping away at the rock until you find the nose.

— Stanley Elkin

I used to write sonnets and various things, and moved from there into writing prose, which, incidentally, is a lot more interesting than poetry,…

— Shelby Foote

Poetry is prose in slow motion.

— Nicholson Baker

Prose and poetry are as different as food and drink.

— Franz Grillparzer

Often the process of writing can feel like spitting into the ocean.

— Max Boot

I'm not asking a poem to carry a lot of rocks in its pockets. Just being an ordinary observer and liver and feeler and…

— Sharon Olds

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

— Kevin Powers

I see the shape of the poem before I start writing, and the writing is just the process of arriving at the shape.

— Carol Ann Duffy

When you're writing fiction, you don't have notes necessarily. You don't carve it, it's not like a piece of sculpture, it's more like water…

— Joan Didion

Somehow writing has always seemed to me to have an element of performance.

— Joan Didion

I was always a writer, by which I mean I was always scribbling away, doing something with pen and paper.

— Simon Van Booy

Writing is like mining for gold hidden in the hillsides of your mind.

— David Baboulene