Fiction will always be my greatest love, with poetry close behind.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Fiction and poetry are my first loves, but the really beautiful lyrical essay can do so much that other forms cannot.
I write poetry anyway and have for years and years. For me, putting fiction and poetry together is like the best of both worlds.
Literature has become my life.
I think that it's more likely that in my 60s and 70s I will be writing poetry rather than fiction.
My love of literature goes back to my childhood.
I find that my reading, particularly nonfiction, can inspire a poem as well as anything else.
The best fiction stays with you and changes you.
I find in my own writing that only fiction - and rarely, a poem - fully tests me to the kind of limits of what I know and what I feel.
Writing is a great love of mine.
I think that there are fiction writers for whom that works well. I could never do it. I feel as if, by the time I see that it's a poem, it's almost written in my head somewhere.