“I think I view myself primarily as a fiction writer. Poetry is more of a "hobby," a time of rest from the hard work of writing fiction.” ThinkingWritingHardViewsFictionHard WorkPoetry IsHobbiesFiction WritersWriting Fiction Author:Yuriy Tarnawsky
“I write what needs to be written the way that seems genuinely right. If what comes out of it are stories, then it is my vocation to believe in them and in the fact that they'll interest people and maybe affect their lives.” PeopleIfsWayNeedsWritingBelieveFactsStoriesSeemsInterestWrittenVocation Author:Etgar Keret
“Life is one heck of an invention. It is better than the iPhone 4S and Coke Zero combined.” Life IsInventionZeroIphoneCokeIphone 4s Author:Etgar Keret
“As we all know, poets are born brain-wired a certain way and every poet I know wrote as a child. I'm no exception.” KnowsWayChildrenCertainBornBrainPoetException Author:Grace Cavalieri
“I started writing poetry because language was how I understood the world. It was a paradigm that made everything matter and in forms that were safe to hold what I felt.” WorldWritingMadeMatterFormLanguageFeltSafeUnderstoodPoetry IsParadigmWriting Poetry Author:Grace Cavalieri
“I write a book of poems and then the characters won't go away so I write a play from that.” WritingBookPlayCharacterGoing Away Author:Grace Cavalieri
“Public work does not cut into personal creativity. They are streams from the same river but with different destinations.” DoeDifferentCreativityCuttingRiversStreamsDestination Author:Grace Cavalieri
“I get a huge energy transfusion from listening to poets read their works.” EnergyPoetHugeListening Author:Grace Cavalieri
“If anything, hearing another poet is a sacred experience I enter, but I can honestly say this does not influence my own work.” IfsDoeI CanMy OwnInfluencePoetSacredHearingHonestly Author:Grace Cavalieri