No author dislikes to be edited as much as he dislikes not to be published.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
“Uniform of a soldier and uniform of a student both are equally needed for the nation.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
“If you can't impress them with your argument, impress them with your actions.” — 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
Creativity is a habit, and the best creativity is a result of good work habits. That's it in a nutshell ... In… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
My favorite subject was English or creative writing. We did poems and making a magazine, and I did one on celebrities. I… — Ashley Tisdale Copy Share Image
I did go to UCLA for art, but the other option was going to Sarah Lawrence and doing creative writing all the… — Emily Ratajkowski Copy Share Image
When I was at UCLA, a professor there encouraged me to write, and so I looked into specializing in creative writing in… — Randall Park Copy Share Image
I've been writing short stories for twenty years now, on and off ever since I was in the creative writing program at… — Andrew Lam Copy Share Image
Linda Svendsen's 'Marine Life' was important. I was nearly 22. Larry Mathews discussed the book in a creative writing class. We examined… — Michael Winter Copy Share Image
“Your passion as an artist is a magnet that draws you at all times, but if you don’t follow, it will suffocate… — Pawan Mishra Copy Share Image
When I taught at the University of Houston in the Creative Writing program, we required the poets to take workshops in fiction… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
I haven't taught creative writing all that much (my CW teaching consists of a few summer workshops for elementary school children and… — Mary J. Miller Copy Share Image
I did not believe political directives could be successfully applied to creative writing . . . not to poetry or fiction, which… — Langston Hughes Copy Share Image
I'm a writer who stacks cat food for a living. It's true: I have a master's degree in creative writing, I've published… — Ali Liebegott Copy Share Image
I played around with GarageBand before, but I'd never actually made a proper song. So it was getting into the studio with… — Benee Copy Share Image
For me, being a good creative writing teacher is actually kind of being a good therapist. The line is very porous -… — Annie Baker Copy Share Image
“After graduating, I'd moved to the Washington D.C. area to see what I could do with the skills I'd picked up from… — Jeff Deck Copy Share Image
As with many teens, my first jobs included babysitting and mopping floors at McDonald's. Since then, I've held jobs a diverse as… — Therese Fowler Copy Share Image
“Buster sat on the curb in front of the college, waiting for his sister to pick him up. To pass the time,… — Kevin Wilson Copy Share Image
If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“A powerful process automatically takes care of progress, productivity and profits.” — Amit Kalantri 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
I always got good grades in creative writing from elementary school on up. — Keith Hernandez Copy Share Image
Without craft, art remains private. Without art, craft is merely hackwork. — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
“Hands can cook, hands can create, hands can kill. There is no better tool than our hands.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
A critic can only review the book he has read, not the one which the writer wrote. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
“What is it about us lady authors and our fascination for the exclamation mark?” — E.A. Bucchianeri Copy Share Image
“If where you are is worthwhile then where you are from doesn't matter.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
“Unrest has entered the hearts of men. When unrest is left to fester, Chaos will soon follow.” — S.D. Ferrell Copy Share Image
A creative writing class may be one of the last places you can go where your life still matters. — Richard Hugo Copy Share Image
