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
all creative writers need a certain amount of time when they're creating something where nobody should criticize them at all - at… — Gena Rowlands Copy Share Image
The problem with reality TV is that creative writers are not involved; TV folks are, and some journalists who will only mine… — Lee Gutkind 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
Get it down. Take chances. It may be bad, but that's the only way you can do anything really good. — William Faulkner 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
What politicians want and what creative writers want will always be profoundly different, because I'm afraid all politicians, of whatever hue, want… — David Hare 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
“The best way to write is to lock yourself in a small room until you become so bored that the only thing… — Jack Freestone 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
If professional religious leaders can [no longer] instruct..., our artists and creative writers can perhaps step into this priestly role and bring… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
Though not all reading children grow up to be writers, I take it that most creative writers must in their day have… — Elizabeth Bowen 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
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
You have to give up a great deal of life, your personal life, to be a writer. — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
I believe that all literatures can have political uses and misuses. Sometimes politics can enhance, sometimes it can get in the way… — Gayl Jones Copy Share Image