To be the kind of writer you want to be, you must first be the kind of thinker you want to be. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Characters paralyzed by the meaninglessness of modern life still have to drink water from time to time. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“If thinking should precede acting, then acting must succeed thinking.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
“During your struggle society is not a bunch of flowers, it is a bunch of cactus.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
“Brilliance of the brain must be admired more than beauty of the body.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
“Common man's patience will bring him more happiness than common man's power.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
My goal growing up was to write a book. That's why I studied English and creative writing in college, and that is… — Lauren Ridloff Copy Share Image
“I told him I wanted to major in creative writing and sit around in yoga pants and do nothing but write books… — Colleen Hoover Copy Share Image
I got my undergrad in Creative Writing, and then I didn't get my Masters in obsession, because I figured I already had… — Julie Powell Copy Share Image
A hero knows it takes hard work and a long time to get published; a fool thinks it should happen immediately, because… — James Scott Copy Share Image
The novelist's ambition is not to do something better than his predecessors but to see what they did not see, say what… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
Around eighth grade I decided I wanted to be a composer and that's what I went to college for. Just a few… — Joanna Newsom Copy Share Image
Dance above the surface of the world. Let your thoughts lift you into creativity that is not hampered by opinion. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Good becomes better by playing against better, but better doesn't become the best by playing against good.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
I'm very interested in the materiality of language. I wonder if, perhaps, this comes from my background in the visual arts. I… — Anna Journey Copy Share Image
We really had the whole piece laid out in like a Word file, just from beginning to end. It was kind of… — Crowder Copy Share Image
In the world of the American creative writing workshop, I've encountered teachers who are tempted to place, or have actually placed, a… — Laura van den Berg Copy Share Image
I fell into playwriting accidentally, took some classes in it, and also took creative writing classes, but I really didn't expect it… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Metaphors are not user-friendly. They're difficult to find and difficult to use well. Unfortunately, metaphors are a mainstay of good lyric writing-indeed… — Pat Pattison Copy Share Image
Very little in science fiction can transcend the gimmickry of a technical conceit, yet without that conceit at its heart a book… — Janet Morris Copy Share Image
I didn't enjoy studying for my A-levels, so didn't really want to go to University to do something overly academic, and when… — Tom Fletcher Copy Share Image
I think women need to hear more encouragement in any field, because I see it - I teach creative writing. And even… — Eileen Pollack Copy Share Image
“IN MY SO-CALLED CAREER, I'VE OFTEN WRITTEN THINGS THAT I VAINLY THOUGHT WERE INCREDIBLY GOOD AND THAT I ENJOYED READING SO MUCH… — Scott Bradfield Copy Share Image
Start dating someone who is funny, someone who has what in high school you called a "really great sense of humor" and… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
“Johnson's later life, from 1763, is among the best documented of all literary lives. James Boswell gave himself the enormous task, after… — Ronald Carter Copy Share Image
“The non-jocks, the readers, the gay kids, the ones starting to stew about social injustice: for these kids, "letting your freak flag… — Wally Lamb Copy Share Image
“At one time I thought the most important thing was talent. I think now that — the young man or the young… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
“Now lend me your ears. Here is Creative Writing 101: 1. Use the time of a total stranger in such a way… — Kurt Vonnegut jr Copy Share Image
“I hate to be a nag, but you have got to read. Like most authors, I run creative writing workshops from time… — Sarah Harrison Copy Share Image
“I caution against communication because once language exist only to convey information, it is dying. In news articles the relation of the… — Richard Hugo Copy Share Image
