For historians, creative writers provide a kind of…

For historians, creative writers provide a kind of pornography.

— Hilary Mantel

It's our job as fiction writers to provide a delight that nothing else can - to such a degree that people have no choice…

— Jennifer Egan

Get it down. Take chances. It may be bad, but that's the only way you can do anything really good.

— William Faulkner

For me, it is about using everything that is there and using the gaps in the record, figuring out why the gaps might be…

— Hilary Mantel

The problem with reality TV is that creative writers are not involved; TV folks are, and some journalists who will only mine the surface…

— Lee Gutkind

A creative writer must study carefully the works of his rivals, including the Almighty. He must possess the inborn capacity not only of recombining…

— Vladimir Nabokov

“The best way to write is to lock yourself in a small room until you become so bored that the only thing left to…

— Jack Freestone

A creative writer can do his best only with what lies within the range and character of his deepest sympathies.

— Willa Cather

What politicians want and what creative writers want will always be profoundly different, because I'm afraid all politicians, of whatever hue, want propaganda, and…

— David Hare

Scholars look for final truths they will never find. Creative writers concern themselves with possibilities that are always there to the receptive.

— Richard Hugo

Might we not say that every child at play behaves like a creative writer, in that he creates a world of his own, or,…

— Sigmund Freud

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

— Pattiann Rogers

all creative writers need a certain amount of time when they're creating something where nobody should criticize them at all - at all. Even…

— Gena Rowlands

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

The creative writer is usually captive to his next book.

— Fannie Hurst