“The creative writer is compulsively concrete . . . . His fictional house should be haunted by ideas, not inhabited by them;… — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
I have thought for many years that the audience any creative writer imagines has a great effect on what gets written. — Pattiann Rogers Copy Share Image
“Creative writer has artistic sensibility. He observes the world like any common men. But his vision observes the world quite differently. He… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The creative writer uses his life as well as being its victim; he can control, in his work, the self-presentation that in… — John Updike Copy Share Image
The fact that I am constantly immersed in the act of legal writing and editing has made me a better and more… — Daniel Olivas Copy Share Image
For a creative writer possession of the ruth is less important than emotional sincerity. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
America is no place for an artist: to be an artist is to be a moral leper, an economic misfit, a social… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
A strong experience in the present awakens in the creative writer a memory of an earlier experience (usually belonging to his childhood)… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
The creative writer does the same as the child at play; he creates a world of fantasy which he takes very seriously. — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
There is no way of being a creative writer in America without being a loser. — Nelson Algren Copy Share Image
To note an artist's limitations is but to define his talent. A reporter can write equally well about everything that is presented… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
“Lie naked on the table, and let them cut. Criticism is surgery, and humility is the anesthetic that allows you to tolerate… — Molly Cochran Copy Share Image
Might we not say that every child at play behaves like a creative writer, in that he creates a world of his… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
For a creative writer possession of the 'truth' is less important than emotional sincerity. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
A creative writer can do his best only with what lies within the range and character of his deepest sympathies. — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
A creative writer must study carefully the works of his rivals, including the Almighty. He must possess the inborn capacity not only… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
I've always liked being on the performance end of it. I've come up with different ideas, but as far as being a… — Christian Cage Copy Share Image
You know, I look to myself mainly as a creative writer all my life and a medical doctor. — Nawal El Saadawi Copy Share Image
No creative writer knows what is commercial and what isn't. You just write from your heart, you write from the deepest, creative… — Mel Brooks Copy Share Image
“There are no "great" subjects for the creative writer; there are only the singular details of a single human life.” — Richard Selzer Copy Share Image
“These are true stories told from memory – to which you are entitled to ask, what is truth, and what is memory… — John le Carré Copy Share Image
Thinking of Poe, thinking of Mark Twain and Vachel Lindsay, thinking of Jack London and Tom Wolfe, one begins to feel there… — Nelson Algren Copy Share Image
People don't really know themselves until they're 30. Like most people nowadays, I went to university, got a degree and wandered for… — Wilbur Smith Copy Share Image
