“Father has a strengthening character like the sun and mother has a soothing temper like the moon.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
I believe the best creative writing lessons live in the specifics. — Jeff VanderMeer Copy Share Image
“All I need to do is place my pen against paper and your love writes for me.” — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
“In united families, they might sleep with half filled stomach but no one sleeps with empty stomach.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
“The decision is your own voice, an opinion is the echo of someone else's voice.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
After finishing my undergraduate work at the University of Iowa, where I took creative writing classes taught by Writer's Workshop students, I… — Andrew Shaffer Copy Share Image
“We are writing in the age of stylish minimalism that in truth has become even more cautious because of word processing. Nowadays,… — Stephen Kuusisto Copy Share Image
Unless you have tested the assumptions in your business model first, outside the building, your business plan is just creative writing. — Steve Blank Copy Share Image
While I wasn't very good at much else in school, in my creative-writing classes or when we had to do some writing… — Bruce Springsteen 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
“Creative writing is your ability to develop your inner tension, your libido, your supply of energy and electric charge, turning the charge… — Lara Biyuts 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
People didn't know certain things about me, which... I was out of creative writing class in school, Syracuse University; had a B.A.… — Lou Reed 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
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
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
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
“Here is a lesson in creative writing. First rule: Do not use semicolons. They are transvestite hermaphrodites representing absolutely nothing. All they… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“…I’ve seen the world tell us with wars and real estate developments and bad politics and odd court decisions that our lives… — Richard Hugo 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 tell my students that there is creative reading, creative thinking, not just creative writing. He said a basketball game was… — Richard Ehrlich Copy Share Image
“A powerful process automatically takes care of progress, productivity and profits.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
I always got good grades in creative writing from elementary school on up. — Keith Hernandez Copy Share Image
When I went to college I took a creative writing class and decided in a week to be a writer. — David Guterson Copy Share Image
You have to give up a great deal of life, your personal life, to be a writer. — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
No author dislikes to be edited as much as he dislikes not to be published. — Russell Lynes Copy Share Image
Get it down. Take chances. It may be bad, but that's the only way you can do anything really good. — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
“I came to pen another poem for you, but even every unwritten poem is you.” — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
“If you can't impress them with your argument, impress them with your actions.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
“Uniform of a soldier and uniform of a student both are equally needed for the nation.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
