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The Satanic Verses' was denied the ordinary life of a novel. It became something smaller and uglier: an insult. -- Salman Rushdie
I would like to champion diverse forms like graphic novels and works told in verse and diverse writers and illustrators and diverse authors as well. -- Malorie Blackman
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. -- Ellen Hopkins
Poetry seems to sink into us the way prose doesn't. I can still quote verses I learned when I was very young, but I have trouble remembering one line of a novel I just finished reading. -- Jack Prelutsky
Reviewers have called my books 'novels in verse.' I think of them as written in prose, but I do use stanzas. Stanza means 'room' in Latin, and I wanted there to be 'room' - breathing opportunities to receive thoughts and have time to come out of them before starting again at the left margin. -- Virginia Euwer Wolff
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. -- Ellen Hopkins

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