Fiction Quote by Jim Shepard

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

— Virginia Woolf

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

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

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

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

“Only God writes great non-fiction.”

— E.C. Lartigue

Many Americans have never owned a book. And others have never owned a non-fiction book. Providing them with a 300-page paperback would get them…

— James W. Loewen

When you play a non-fiction character it is more responsibility than when you are playing a fiction character because that person lived, and you…

— Bryan Cranston

Fiction and non-fiction are only different techniques of story telling. For reasons I do not fully understand, fiction dances out of me. Non-fiction is…

— Arundhati Roy

I lay on my floor crying again¦ shaking. Searching for inner strength and coming up empty. My eyes burned and my mouth was dry…

— Nathan Daniels

Inspiration comes from so many sources. Music, other fiction, the non-fiction I read, TV shows, films, news reports, people I know, stories I hear,…

— Trudi Canavan