Books Quote by Robert Harris

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

The whole process of having to put the thing into the world seems so antithetical to the act of writing. Poetry is slightly easier,…

— Nick Laird

A novel is what you call something that won't sell if you call it poems or short stories.

— Walker Percy

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

— Philip Larkin

Poetry can only be made out of other poems; novels out of other novels.

— Northrop Frye

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

— John Updike

A novel is a work of poetry. In order to write it, one must have tranquility of spirit and of impression.

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

I know I'm not a wordsmith. And I don't write poetry. Sometimes I think I should, because it's really helpful. But I always wanted…

— Candace Bushnell

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

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

Poetry is a kind of gasp, and there it is, a spark on the page. Fiction, on the other hand, is like swamp fire.

— Joy Kogawa

“Literature simulates life. A novel is a story of what never was, and a play is a novel without narration. A poem is the…

— Fernando Pessoa