Growing up as a kid, I took creative writing classes, and I was always into poetry. — Ivan Moody Copy Share Image
In creative writing, I teach that characters arise out of our need for them. — Marlon James Copy Share Image
“The wrong man is not always wrong because of his wrong actions, often he is wrong because of no actions.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
“The smell of the sweat is not sweet, but the fruit of the sweat is very sweet.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
I majored in English with a specialization in creative writing along with Asian American Studies. — Randall Park Copy Share Image
“Cowards say it can't be done, critics say it shouldn't have been done, creator say well done.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
“Perhaps, writing is like the taste of honey sucked from flowers in a garden, each tasting differently.” — Anu Lal Copy Share Image
The best and only true history we have. Everyone interested in creative writing should know this book. — Tony Ardizzone Copy Share Image
Creative writing programmes are not very necessary. They just exist so that people like us can make a living. — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
If you can't play all the instruments in the orchestra of story, no matter what music may be in your imagination, you're… — Robert McKee Copy Share Image
“For you to reach a state of creative enlightenment, you must wage war on yourself, and start working. Only then will inspiration… — Chris Erzfeld Copy Share Image
“You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have. As quoted in Conversations with Maya Angelou (1989)” — by Jeffrey M. Elliot Copy Share Image
A creative writing program is only as good as its teachers, and I was fortunate in having two great writers as mentors. — Jay McInerney Copy Share Image
“For few matters you need to be solo, for some matters you need soul mate and for many matters you need society,” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
“In the business people with expertise, experience and evidence will make more profitable decisions than people with instinct, intuition and imagination.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
The maker of a sentence launches out into the infinite and builds a road into Chaos and old Night, and is followed… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Most writers - poets in especial - prefer having it understood that they compose by a species of fine frenzy - an… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
For a while the creative writing community sort of sprung out of places like Iowa and Syracuse. The graduates sort of went… — Ted Kooser Copy Share Image
In high school, in 1956, at the age of sixteen, we were not taught "creative writing." We were taught literature and grammar.… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
I certainly wasn't born with creative writing. Maybe there's a certain amount of learning and then it's up to the person. I… — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
“MFA in a Box is designed to help you to find the courage to put truth into words and to understand that… — John Rember Copy Share Image
When I used to teach creative writing, I would tell the students to make their characters want something right away - even… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I'm not Pollyanna - I know that my personality and my opinions and how I approach the teaching of writing maybe isn't… — Tod Goldberg Copy Share Image
A poet has to adapt himself, more or less consciously,to the demands of his vocation, and hence the peculiarities of poets and… — Stephen Spender Copy Share Image
“Inside is where we meet everyone else; it's on the outside that we are truly alone.” — Charles Simic Copy Share Image
“Politeness is the first thing people lose once they get the power.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
“In modern times couples are more concerned about loyalty than love.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
Becoming a writer means being creative enough to find the time and the place in your life for writing. — Heather Sellers Copy Share Image
There is the great creative part of it. The writing is the best part. — Cynthia Weil Copy Share Image
I am basically analytical, not creative; my writing is simply a creative way of handling analysis. — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
“Because at night when others are sleeping, I drown myself in poetry.” — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
The truth, or success, of any writer's story lies partly in its specificity and its emotional honesty. — Gail Caldwell Copy Share Image
“Before we complicated life with money, machines and missiles we did well with morals, manpower and meetings.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
I knew I wanted to do something creative, and you don't necessarily go to Harvard to do that. It's not the best… — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
“War is not just the shower of bullets and bombs from both sides, it is also the shower of blood and bones… — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
I don't think American poetry has gotten any better in the past 35 years. Oddly enough, creative writing programs seem to have… — Robert Morgan Copy Share Image
“We are taken through the pursuit of the American dream, the establishment of the American family, and a smattering of suspense and… — Nikita Allgire Copy Share Image
Every great and original writer, in proportion as he is great and original, must himself create the taste by which he is… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
None of my English teachers in college were praising me or telling me I was anything special. But then in creative writing… — John Brandon Copy Share Image
