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I don't think I've ever read poetry, ever.

Otherwise I don't read much adult poetry at all, because I'm not smart enough and mostly I don't get it.

I don't think it's always good to read lots of poetry.

I don't think anybody reads a book of poetry front to back. Editors and reviewers only. I don't think anybody else does.

Poetry says the things that I can't say. I read a lot, but I never write it.

For whatever reason, people, including very well-educated people or people otherwise interested in reading, do not read poetry.

Poetry always runs away from you - it's very difficult to grasp it, and every time you read it, depending on your conditions, you will have a different grasp of it. Whereas with a novel, once you have read it, you have grasped it.

I don't live for poetry. I live far more than anybody else does.

Nobody ever told me what to read, or ever put poetry in my way.

I'm a failed poet. Reading poetry helps me to see the world differently, and I try to infuse my prose with figurative language, which goes against the trend in fiction.