Book Quote by Nick Laird

It is perfectly legitimate to write novels which are essentially prose poems, but in the end, I think, a novel is like a car,…

— Robert Harris

I write poetry anyway and have for years and years. For me, putting fiction and poetry together is like the best of both worlds.

— Ellen Hopkins

When I am writing fiction, I believe I am much better organized, more methodical - one has to be when writing a novel. Writing…

— Margaret Atwood

Novels seem to me to be richer, broader, deeper, more enjoyable than poems.

— Philip Larkin

I think poetry is the best thing I do. It's certainly the purest. I seem to switch gears without too much trouble. Non-fiction is…

— Erica Jong

I would rather write poems than prose, any day, any place. Yet each has its own force.

— Mary Oliver

With a novel, you have to have a story. It's much more important to have it matter to the reader what happens to people,…

— Dave Barry

Why do you always write poetry? Why do you not write prose? Prose is so much more difficult.

— Walter Pater

Poetry always runs away from you - it's very difficult to grasp it, and every time you read it, depending on your conditions, you…

— Abbas Kiarostami

I think writing a poem is like being a greyhound. Writing a novel is like being a mule. You go up one long row,…

— Ron Rash

I don't write poetry or short stories. I don't like to write articles usually. I tend to really only want to be focused on…

— Markus Zusak

I think the path to becoming a writer has become more through the novel. It's easier to get a novel published than a book…

— Jess Walter