“Mixing old wine with new wine is stupidity, but mixing old wisdom with new wisdom is maturity.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
I never attended a creative writing class in my life. I have a horror of them. — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
A great writer reveals the truth even when he or she does not wish to. — Tom Bissell Copy Share Image
“Creativity without discipline will struggle, creativity with discipline will succeed.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
A good creative-writing teacher can save a good writer a lot of time. — Richard Hugo Copy Share Image
Poetry is something that happens in universities, in creative writing programs or in English departments. — Mark Strand Copy Share Image
“A writing tablet evidences the writer’s mind shadows, the dark twin that sketches the meandering of our conscious mind and taps into… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
If he can give his readers no reason why they should read his book, except that the events happened to him, it… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
I got out of college and I went to get my master's in creative writing at San Francisco State. I was working… — Peter Coyote Copy Share Image
“I find it helpful when I stop for the day to leave the last sentence unfinished or the last paragraph only lightly… — julia bell Copy Share Image
The best visual book I can think of is Lynda Barry's What It Is, but although I refer to it all the… — Jeff VanderMeer Copy Share Image
“Every time you go to see Hamlet you don't expect it to have a happy ending...you're still enthralled. (Interview BBC Radio 4… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
“Plays are nearly always about the consequences of events while films are usually about the events. The what-happens-next factor is essential in… — Richard Toscan Copy Share Image
“Parents expect only two things from their children, obedience in their childhood and respect in their adulthood.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
The effects of MFA programs, and the rise of creative writing instruction more generally, are far more diffuse than people think. Even… — Chad Harbach Copy Share Image
One of the unfortunate things about creative writing courses is that they make people impatient. People feel that they have prepared themselves… — Robert Dessaix Copy Share Image
When I applied to Stanford, I applied for graduate work in the PhD program, not to the creative writing program, mostly because… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
“Sadly, but certainly, a promising genre of literature in poetry that began with pomp and a loud thud, a banger and an… — Alok Mishra Copy Share Image
I flew into a small airport surrounded by cornfields and pastures, ready to carry out the two commands my father had written… — Bharati Mukherjee Copy Share Image
Actually, I've taught creative writing in Turkey, at an English language university, where the students were native Turkish speakers, but they were… — Elif Batuman Copy Share Image
I don't know much about creative writing programs. But they're not telling the truth if they don't teach, one, that writing is… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
The one thing emphasized in any creative writing course is 'write what you know,' and that automatically drives a wooden stake through… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“She’d read countless fantasy novels where the heroine was a chosen one, picked from all others to save the world, normally wearing… — Christopher G. Nuttall Copy Share Image
“I often said that writers are of two types. There is the architect, which is one type. The architect, as if designing… — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
“Albert never told anyone of what the guard did to him. But sometimes he smells the guard's stink in his sleep, a… — James Lee Burke Copy Share Image
“By the early-afternoon hours, if your brain is normal, it's running strictly on inertia and reflex. All you can do during those… — Scott Adams Copy Share Image
“Literary style is like crystal-ware: the cleaner the wineglass, the brighter the brilliance. As a reader, I agree with those who believe… — Lara Biyuts Copy Share Image
“After graduate school, I stumbled into teaching mostly by chance. I was lucky and picked up new fields as I taught, expanding… — Salvatore Pane Copy Share Image
I kind of came from the Townes Van Zandt school of throwing yourself off a cliff and then that's what you write… — John Fullbright Copy Share Image
I try to tell student writers to read as much as possible, not only literature but philosophy, theory, and to form obsessions.… — Kate Zambreno Copy Share Image
Fantasy is the impossible made probable. Science Fiction is the improbable made possible. — Rod Serling Copy Share Image
“You can take the Indian out of the family, but you cannot take the family out of the Indian.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
I went to school for creative writing in college, and I wound up about six hours short of my degree. — Jason Isbell Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, creative people are at their most creative when writing their autobiographies. — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
