Fiction Quote by Joy Kogawa

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

— Yuriy Tarnawsky

Poetry might be more about the eternal verities, the essence of the human soul, and - although it's reductive to say so - fiction…

— Chad Harbach

Fiction, on the other hand, is like swamp fire.

— Joy Kogawa

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

With fiction, you can talk about plot, character and narrative, whereas a poem brings home the fact that everything that happens in a work…

— Terry Eagleton

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

— Edward Hirsch

“Poetry is a way of coming to know the realness of things; fiction is a way of coming to know the world of relationships;…

— Kelly Cherry

I think poets are much more dramatic, more theatrical than fiction writers.

— Francine Prose

My own sense is that fiction is inching its way over to join poetry on the cultural margin. It's an area of passionate concern…

— Matthew Specktor

Fiction is in danger of becoming a kind of poetry. Only other poets read it. Only other fiction writers care about it.

— John Updike

Fiction is of the essence of poetry as well as of painting; there is a resemblance in one of human bodies, things, and actions…

— John Dryden

Prose gets divided up into fiction and nonfiction and short fiction and long fiction and autobiographical nonfiction and so on. Poetry can do any…

— Robert Hass