I think that it's more likely that in my 60s and 70s I will be writing poetry rather than fiction.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I write poetry anyway and have for years and years. For me, putting fiction and poetry together is like the best of both worlds.
Well - I started writing - probably in the early 60s and by say '65-'66 I had read most of the poetry that had been published - certainly in the 20 years prior to that.
I never imagined when I began writing in the early 1960s I'd become professional and my life would be transformed.
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.
Fiction will always be my greatest love, with poetry close behind.
I have been writing poetry since 1975. My first poetry book was published in 1986.
I've written poetry since I was a kid. As the years went on, I got into writing stories and screenplays, but I always, always kept up with poetry as well.
When I am writing fiction, I believe I am much better organized, more methodical - one has to be when writing a novel. Writing poetry is a state of free float.
Maybe it is something to do with age, but I have become fonder of poetry than of prose.
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.