Book Quote by Terry Brooks

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

— John Updike

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

But the sensibility of the writer, whether fiction or poetry, comes from paying attention. I tell my students that writing doesn't begin when you…

— Julia Alvarez

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 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

Poetry isn't like any writing I've ever heard before. I don't understand all of it, just bits of images, sentences that appear half-finished, all…

— Lauren Oliver

I use poetry to explain myself to myself. It is a way of investigating who you really are, what you feel, what survives the…

— Jonathan W. Galassi

Writing fiction, for me, is a more indirect form of self-exploration than writing verse. When I'm working on a novel I'm moving characters around…

— Nick Laird

The mysterious thing about writing poetry is that when you're - when things are going poorly, when you're not thinking well, even making two…

— Edward Hirsch

The whole point of writing poetry or fiction is that you get to agonize over whatever it is you want to say, and you…

— Nick Laird

Poetry is a process of getting back to the unconscious. Hence, I am always writing-even when I'm not facing the white space. I feel…

— Yusef Komunyakaa

I think that there are fiction writers for whom that works well. I could never do it. I feel as if, by the time…

— Sharon Olds