Because Quote by Natalie Babbitt

“What you want is practice, practice, practice. It doesn’t matter what we write … so long as we write continually as well as we…

— Patricia Goodson

The problem with writing a book in verse is, to be successful, it has to sound like you knocked it off on a rainy…

— Dr. Seuss

My first book was poetry, but I didn't write it first. I wrote it third. So my first two books were prose.

— Tao Lin

I do write a lot of prose. It's not disciplined enough yet that it's actually become stories, or short stories. The idea of writing…

— PJ Harvey

I have been writing songs and poems since I was a little girl. I started writing short scripts, which evolved into the idea for…

— Hilary Duff

The decision to write in prose instead of poetry is made more by the readers than by writers. Almost no one is interested in…

— Robert Morgan

I've been writing fiction as long as I've been writing poetry. It's just that the poetry took off, and it took me a lot…

— Barbara Hamby

I wrote my own verses. Anything I did, I wrote myself.

— Brandy Norwood

What I do say is that I can write verse, and that the writing of verse in strict form is the best possible training…

— Philip Pullman

I used to write my own versions of famous tales, such as William Tell or Robin Hood, and illustrate them myself, too. When I…

— Peter Robinson

I usually do at least a dozen drafts and progressively make more-conscious decisions. Because I've always believed stories are closer to poems than novels,…

— Ron Rash

As far as poetry, I don't know if I've ever written any. I've read a lot. I just write and it comes out in…

— Henry Rollins