I find it helpful when I stop for the day to leave the…

“There is then creative reading as well as creative writing. When the mind is braced by labor and invention, the page of whatever book…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

“Don't compare the size of your roof with the size of the sky.”

— Amit Kalantri

“Because at night when others are sleeping, I drown myself in poetry.”

— Kamand Kojouri

“We are taken through the pursuit of the American dream, the establishment of the American family, and a smattering of suspense and intrigue.”

— Nikita Allgire

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

— Andre Dubus

“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

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

“The smell of the sweat is not sweet, but the fruit of the sweat is very sweet.”

— Amit Kalantri

“In general, poor is polite and rich is rude.”

— Amit Kalantri

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

When I was at UCLA, a professor there encouraged me to write, and so I looked into specializing in creative writing in the English…

— Randall Park

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

“Take care of your costume and your confidence will take care of itself.”

— Amit Kalantri

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

— Francine Prose