Books Quote by John Steinbeck

“I guess I have no choice But to toss all novels under the rug Nothing can compete with the poetry bug”

— Maddy Kobar

“Poetry, at the best, does us a kind of violence that prose fiction rarely attempts or accomplishes.”

— Harold Bloom

“Our fictions move us to do great things, things worth doing for no better reason than there's poetry in us. We dream before we…

— Bill Willingham

“Poetry is a story that is so good, It doesn't need complete sentences.”

— John Smyth

“A novel, like poetry, should have for its hero a person superior to the common herd of men.”

— Lady Shelley

“There is a kind of poetry, bad and good, in everything, everywhere we look.”

— Ali Smith

“A writer should be on a quest to get better and better with each book. May it be a never-ending quest.”

— Mark Rubinstein

“Poetry can be a form of restriction. Lock away tragedy inside pretty words. Quantify pieces of infinite love.”

— Cody Edward Lee Miller

“Poets always hate those in power. To them perfection is always just behind the last corner, or beyond the next. They escape the present…

— Robert E. Howard

“Poetry is a never ending journey.”

— Subrat Saurabh

“For my part, I love to give myself up to the illusion of poetry. A hero of fiction that never existed is just as…

— Washington Irving

“One great pleasure of being a writer is possessing the power to determine the fate of my characters and how the story will end.”

— Terry a O'Neal