When I used to teach creative writing, I would tell the students to make their characters want something right away. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
A piece of creative writing, like a day-dream, is a continuation of, and a substitute for, what was once the play of… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
For decades, as literary editor, I have followed the growth of our creative writing in English. In my Solidaridad Bookshop, half of… — F. Sionil Jose Copy Share Image
By what he chooses to present and by how he presents it, any author expresses his fundamental, metaphysical values. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
One must be drenched in words, literally soaked in them, to have the right ones form themselves into the proper pattern at… — Hart Crane Copy Share Image
Good prose almost always requires both showing and telling, scenes and summary, the two basic components of creative prose. — Laurie Alberts Copy Share Image
I was an English major in college, took a ton of creative writing courses, and was a newspaper reporter for 10 years. — Jennifer Weiner Copy Share Image
To say that creative writing courses are all useless is almost as silly as saying all editors are useless. Writers of all… — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
I know people who've passed every creative writing course under the sun and who are more analytically intelligent and far better-read than… — Suhayl Saadi Copy Share Image
“Stories aren’t lies; they are integral to our search for truth and meaning. Our species has been trying to make sense of… — Will Raywood Copy Share Image
You don't write a novel out of sheer pity any more than you blow a safe out of a vague longing to… — Nelson Algren Copy Share Image
“Branding is a lot of things, but one thing it's not is soft. When you brand, rebrand or brand-diggity, ask yourself one… — Richie Norton Copy Share Image
I grew up around poets and novelists and my dad wrote poems about everything - from a cat sleeping in a window… — Lucinda Williams Copy Share Image
I really think that if there's any one enemy to human creativity, especially creative writing, its self-consciousness. And if you have one… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Destroy your life; then put it back together.You'll get great material, meet some fascinating characters and – side benefit – the skills… — Jerry Stahl Copy Share Image
The secret truth of 'Celebrity Apprentice' is that it isn't very hard... 'Celebrity Apprentice' is easy like junior high is easy. All… — Penn Jillette Copy Share Image
The books people are writing today, they're too long. You get a little bit of plot, and then pages and pages of… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
I was in law school at the University of Kentucky and realized I didn't really like law school, so I took a… — Karen Robards Copy Share Image
A blend of fact and fiction has been used in various forms since the dawn of creative writing, starting with sagas and… — Antony Beevor Copy Share Image
I did not go to any creative writing workshop; I did not major in literature. If I can write, anyone can write.… — Vikas Swarup Copy Share Image
The phenomenon of university creative writing programs doesn't exist in France. The whole idea is regarded as a novelty, or an oddity. — Marilyn Hacker Copy Share Image
Now that I'm staring down the barrel of the last act of my life, I'm less excited about control and solo effort,… — David Knopfler Copy Share Image
I didn't do a masters in creative writing until I was 26, which is quite old, and then I found myself in… — Rachel Kushner Copy Share Image
I think you have to learn for yourself how to write. I'm slightly mystified by creative writing courses - God love them… — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
I worry that people think you have to go to a university to be a good writer, which is categorically untrue. I… — Samantha Shannon Copy Share Image
“Most creative-writing teachers have had the experience of occasionally helping to produce, by accident, a pornographer.” — John Gardner Copy Share Image
One professor in college told me flat out I wasn't good enough to enter the creative writing program. I saved that letter… — Ellen Potter Copy Share Image
Once the travel guide came out and won an award, once I got an MFA in creative writing, once I sold my… — James Bernard Frost Copy Share Image
The writer, like everyone else, is equipped in infancy with a thick padding of things he believes to be true, but which… — Jon Franklin Copy Share Image
Like a Passover Poet gliding from house to house and from trembling soul to trembling soul the wind scribbled sonnets of first… — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
There is no adequate definition for creative writing, any more than it is possible to describe pain or flavor or color. — Fannie Hurst Copy Share Image
“You can get yourself pretty thoroughly lost, in time and space, if you don't know where you are or where you have… — George Garrett Copy Share Image
Grading creative writing is always an ethical dilemma. But what you brought up about grading personal stories versus the research paper is… — Debra Monroe Copy Share Image
I see creative-writing classes as some sort of AA meeting. It is more of a support group for people who write than… — Etgar Keret Copy Share Image
I've always wanted to entertain people, and when I was in school, I was interested in creative writing, but wrestling was always… — AJ Lee Copy Share Image
From my years of teaching creative writing, I know that new writers take the setting for granted, as simply a place to… — Garry Disher Copy Share Image
“Described as a "workaholic speed-writing freak" by fellow writers, a "creative writing class drill sergeant" by his writing 'padawans', Voinov is a… — Aleksandr Voinov Copy Share Image
My god, people are selling their work and people are reading it! The horror! That MFA programs have to advertise that they'll… — Tod Goldberg Copy Share Image
I got a degree in English from Brigham Young University, but I didnt study creative writingjust literature. I was too much a… — Stephenie Meyer Copy Share Image
I think good creative writing opens up space for people to come into. Let God reach out and touch the human soul.… — William P. Young Copy Share Image
