"Fiction is something that I've always wanted to write. I think that I give myself a break when I write fiction. And that's not to take anything away from people that write fiction, because I know that it's just as taxing, and there's so much involved with that. But for me, I write poems because I have to, and I write stories because I want to. When I'm writing stories, I tend to write stories when, like right now, I'm writing a lot of stories because I'm trying to get away from this collection of poems. It's just killing me. But, that's kind of what it is for me."
Quote Details
Added by wikiquote-import-bot
Unverified quote
0 likes
Novelists from the United StatesPoets from the United StatesMemoirists from the United StatesPeople from CharlestonAsian Americans
Original Language: English
Available Languages (1)
Sources
On fiction versus poetry writing in “AN INTERVIEW WITH JON PINEDA” in Blackbird (2004 Jun 17)
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Jon_Pineda
Revision History
No revisions have been submitted for this quote.
Categories
Jon Pineda
4 quotes on TrueQuotesView all quotes by Jon Pineda →
Related Quotes
"Once I wrote poems, I found that I was able to piece together individual moments that would, I’d hoped, sometimes com…"
"I think it’s relative to the story you’re writing. Some novels are filled with summary and some are filled with scene…"
"The setting, with all of its contradictions, is crucial. The land provides a deceptive promise of freedom, yet also p…"
"Aye, think! Since time and life began, Your mind has only feared and slept; Of all the beasts they called you man Onl…"
"Would you end war? Create great Peace."
"To be a god First I must be a god-maker: We are what we create."
"Hearts starve as well as bodies: Give us Bread, but give us Roses."
"Up in the heights of the evening skies I see my City of Cities float In sunset’s golden and crimson dyes: I look, and…"
"They can only set free men free... And there is no need of that: Free men set themselves free."