Fiction Quote by Yuriy Tarnawsky

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

I think fiction goes to poetry for the intensity of its use of language.

— Edward Hirsch

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 think poets are much more dramatic, more theatrical than fiction writers.

— Francine Prose

Poetry might be more about the eternal verities, the essence of the human soul, and - although it's reductive to say so - fiction…

— Chad Harbach

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 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

Then I discovered I loved writing poetry more than fiction.

— George Murray

I never paid attention when people said, "That's gotta be poetry. That's gotta be fiction," except when I was in a graduate program, and…

— Sandra Cisneros

My own sense is that fiction is inching its way over to join poetry on the cultural margin. It's an area of passionate concern…

— Matthew Specktor

One of the primary differences for me between fiction and poetry is that fiction uses every sort of tool that poetry does but hides…

— Brian Evenson

With fiction, you can talk about plot, character and narrative, whereas a poem brings home the fact that everything that happens in a work…

— Terry Eagleton