“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
“Longfellow has his popularity, in the main, because he tells his story or his idea so that one needs nothing but his verses to understand it.” NeedsIdeasStoriesVersesPopularity Book:The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Volume IV: Early Essays Source: The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Volume IV: Early Essays
“Every second the Universe divides into possibilities and most of those possibilities never happen. It is not a uni-verse -- there is more than one reading. The story won't stop, can't stop, it goes on telling itself, waiting for an intervention that changes what will happen next.” StoriesHappensUniverseReadingNextWaitingPossibilityGoes OnDividesVersesInterventionEvery Second Author:Jeanette Winterson