We have always learned about life by dramatising our…

I've always written. When I was in school, the only teacher who ever liked me was my creative writing teacher. I used to enter…

— Justin Townes Earle

There is the great creative part of it. The writing is the best part.

— Cynthia Weil

The maker of a sentence launches out into the infinite and builds a road into Chaos and old Night, and is followed by those…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

All the elements of good writing depend on the writer's skill in choosing one word instead of another.

— Francine Prose

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 of most…

— Pat Pattison

When I write what publishers call 'fantasy' I am writing in what I think is the most important tradition of fiction: starting with Homer…

— Janet Morris

I really think that if there's any one enemy to human creativity, especially creative writing, it's self-consciousness.

— Andre Dubus

Start dating someone who is funny, someone who has what in high school you called a "really great sense of humor" and what now…

— Lorrie Moore

A creative writing workshop will contain students whose ambitions and abilities, whose conceptions of literature itself, are so diverse that what they have in…

— Rachel Cusk

We have learned to take life seriously, but never ourselves.

— Marie Dressler

What I've learned is that life is too short and movies are too long.

— Denis Leary

So we led our lives in nature and spent a lot of time together as a family. That's how we picked things up and…

— Akiane Kramarik

Our experience is coloured through and through by books and plays and the cinema, and it takes patience and skill to disentangle the things…

— Anonymous

There's a lesson to be learned out of everything we go through in life.

— LaToya Jackson

I've learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow. I've…

— Anonymous