Then I discovered I loved writing poetry more than fiction.

Humour is a fine line to walk in poetry as in fiction. I just think it's harder to write. It's harder to keep the respect of the reader too.

Even the people who have had success and made money writing these books of fiction seem to feel the need to pretend it's no big deal or part of a natural progression from poetry to fiction but often it's really just about the money the perceived prestige.

It's always good when women win things in fiction because it tends to be more male-dominated unlike poetry which is more equal.

Even if you only want to write science fiction you should also read mysteries poetry mainstream literature history biography philosophy and science.

Science fiction outside of poetry is the only literary field which has no limits no parameters whatsoever.

I often imagine that the longer he studies English literature the more the Japanese student must be astonished at the extraordinary predominance given to the passion of love both in fiction and in poetry.

The middle class is doing fine in fiction. But it's not what gets me going. I love the working class and everyone from it I've met and think they're incredibly witty inventive - there's a lot of poetry there.

Cut quarrels out of literature and you will have very little history or drama or fiction or epic poetry left.

I don't think American poetry has gotten any better in the past 35 years. Oddly enough creative writing programs seem to have been good for fiction and I would not have predicted that.