Almost Quote by Sharon Olds

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

— John Updike

I find in my own writing that only fiction - and rarely, a poem - fully tests me to the kind of limits of…

— John Updike

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

— Yuriy Tarnawsky

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

I am all the time thinking about poetry and fiction and you.

— Virginia Woolf

When fiction writers like my poems I feel like I've hit the jackpot.

— Cate Marvin

If you only write when inspired, you may be a fairly decent poet, but you'll never be a novelist.

— Neil Gaiman

I love poetry, read it a lot, but make no claim to being able to write it.

— Michael Helm

I like to mix it up, because the kind of comments you can get from a fiction writer about your poetry are going to…

— Sandra Cisneros

First of all, writing at best - certainly fiction writing - more and more I think is magic.

— Kathy Acker

There is poetry in fiction. If you cannot see it and feel it when you write, you need to step back and examine what…

— Terry Brooks

There's always some reason not to be writing and I regret the times I give in to that, because then writing feels strange -…

— Joan Larkin