“I never even considered writing a career option. I just liked the play of words. I was certainly interested in story, but the stories I was telling then were in narrative verse and prose poems, short and succinct, except for one novel-length poem written in narrative couplets.” WritingPlayStoriesCareersNovelWrittenNarrativeProseLengthVersesCouplets Author:Charles de Lint
“Don't talk to me any more about poetry for months -- unless it is other men's work. I really love verse, even rubbish. But I'm fearfully busy at a novel, and brush all the gossamer of verse off my face.” MenFacesNovelMonthsBusyVersesBrushesRubbishTalk To MeDon't Talk To Me Book:The Letters of D. H. Lawrence Source: The Letters of D. H. Lawrence
“Believe it or not, I sold my first novel, Crank, with only seventy-five pages complete. It was in verse then, and it was hard-hitting then.” FirstsBelieveHardNovelFivePagesVersesHittingSeventiesCrank Author:Ellen Hopkins