For a creative writer possession of the ruth is less…

For a creative writer possession of the 'truth' is less important than emotional sincerity.

— George Orwell

Great advertising is the expression of deep emotional sincerity.

— Storm Jameson

To note an artist's limitations is but to define his talent. A reporter can write equally well about everything that is presented to his…

— Willa Cather

There is no way of being a creative writer in America without being a loser.

— Nelson Algren

Some actors, I think, want to feel that they are as creative as the writer. And the answer is, frankly, they're not.

— John Cleese

The creative writer does the same as the child at play; he creates a world of fantasy which he takes very seriously.

— Sigmund Freud

A strong experience in the present awakens in the creative writer a memory of an earlier experience (usually belonging to his childhood) from which…

— Sigmund Freud

America is no place for an artist: to be an artist is to be a moral leper, an economic misfit, a social liability. A…

— Henry Miller

The fact that I am constantly immersed in the act of legal writing and editing has made me a better and more efficient creative…

— Daniel Olivas

The creative writer uses his life as well as being its victim; he can control, in his work, the self-presentation that in actuality is…

— John Updike

“Creative writer has artistic sensibility. He observes the world like any common men. But his vision observes the world quite differently. He can perceive…

— Aristotle

“A creative writer is one for whom writing is a problem.”

— Roland Barthes

I have thought for many years that the audience any creative writer imagines has a great effect on what gets written.

— Pattiann Rogers

“The creative writer is compulsively concrete . . . . His fictional house should be haunted by ideas, not inhabited by them; they should…

— Wallace Stegner

The creative writer is usually captive to his next book.

— Fannie Hurst