Here is a lesson in creative writing. First rule: Do not…

“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

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

— Amit Kalantri

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

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

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

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

— Amit Kalantri

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

— Amit Kalantri

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

“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

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

— Andre Dubus

“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

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

— Kamand Kojouri

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

— Amit Kalantri

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

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

— Francine Prose