Book Quote by Shane McCrae

I think a book-length poem stands about as good a chance as a collection of individual poems in reaching its field of ears. This…

— C.D. Wright

I have taught the long poem off and on for years. The more book-length poems I read and studied and taught the more interested…

— C.D. Wright

I would not say I chose to write long poems on a conscious level. The long poem has been a relative constant.

— Anonymous

I actually enjoy writing longer books because you have even more to get your storytelling teeth into.

— Stephen Cole

I tend not to write books that are really, really long, and I'm also a pretty fast writer.

— Elizabeth Berg

“Poetry vs. Prose One difference of course is the length of the line. And some people suppose that prose doesn’t rhyme. But I have…

— Daniel Klawitter

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

The first two books that I did by myself were long stories in verse. I knew I could do that because I'd written a…

— Natalie Babbitt

I always write too long in the beginning, then it is a matter of going through it over and over again on subsequent drafts,…

— Chevy Stevens

I have no very sophisticated understanding of literary forms. Short stories are shorter than novels, and poems are typically shorter than either, though not…

— Sally Rooney

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

Works of art are not so much finished as abandoned. Perhaps poems can be perfect. A short-short story might even be perfectible, as effective…

— Bruce Holland Rogers