I took a lot of writing courses.

There are too many "creative writing" courses and seminars, in which young wirters are constantly being taught to rewrite the previous generation. They should…

— John Dos Passos

One of the unfortunate things about creative writing courses is that they make people impatient. People feel that they have prepared themselves and that…

— Robert Dessaix

To say that creative writing courses are all useless is almost as silly as saying all editors are useless. Writers of all levels can…

— Matt Haig

Some people swear by writing courses, but whether it really helps American poetry, I have doubts.

— Robert Morgan

A lot of novelists start late-Conrad, Pirandello, even Mark Twain. When you're young, chess is all right, and music and poetry. But novel-writing is…

— James M. Cain

I think you have to learn for yourself how to write. I'm slightly mystified by creative writing courses - God love them - because…

— Kate Atkinson

I went to college, though I didn't take many writing courses.

— Walter Jon Williams

I was unhappy and I couldn't figure out what was the matter. And he told me to go take a writing course. And I…

— Bonnie Jo Campbell

I teach writing courses and first of all, I teach my students what prosody is.

— Theodore Sturgeon

Middlesbrough took a lot out of me, it was enjoyable but draining.

— Tony Pulis

I was on a couple of scholarships. I had a job in the school administrative office. I had a job as a hat-check boy…

— Kevin Spacey

Eventually I did that, but it took a lot of twists and turns, and there were a year or two there where I was…

— Renny Harlin

It took a lot out of me to win. But more than anything, when you are goalless, you are listless in your life.

— Abhinav Bindra

“...she might not have been party to love, but it still took a lot of volume to fill a life.”

— Colum McCann

It took a lot of time for me to understand that I'm not competing against anybody but myself.

— Luis Gerardo Mendez