“Take care of your costume and your confidence will take care of itself.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
“Seeing the mud around a lotus is pessimism, seeing a lotus in the mud is optimism.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
“Every time you say blah blah blah, a creative writing teacher dies.” — Michael Lopp Copy Share Image
“Making a product is just an activity, making a profit on a product is the achievement.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
“Here is a lesson in creative writing. First rule: Do not use semicolons. They are transvestite hermaphrodites representing absolutely nothing. All they… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Here is a lesson in creative writing. First rule: Do not use semicolons. They are transvestite hermaphrodites representing absolutely nothing. All they… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
The professionalization of poetry, or the balkanization, has come out of the fact that when you apply to most creative writing programs,… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
“Men who create art feel a zillion times happier than men who create wealth. Art lives on but wealth diminishes.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
Like the child, the creative writing student is posited as a centre of vulnerable creativity, needful of attention and authority. — Rachel Cusk Copy Share Image
“Giving these students, teenagers, any form of power over the use of their own words, allowing them to turn everyday raw material… — Gloria Ng Copy Share Image
I am an English major in school with an emphasis in creative writing. I think hearing Maya Angelou speak at school last… — Fred Savage Copy Share Image
“I’m not saying you can’t do writing, just do some writing that you can build a career on. Creative writing isn’t going… — Francesca Zappia Copy Share Image
I have done literary translation because the University of Arkansas, where I did my MFA, was program of creative writing and translation,… — Miroslav Penkov Copy Share Image
I try to be realistic with students. And say that there's a good chance that they're not going to get a creative… — Ted Kooser Copy Share Image
“Sound is so important to creative writing. Think of the sounds you hear that you include and the similes you use to… — Barbara DeMarco-Barrett Copy Share Image
“There is then creative reading as well as creative writing. When the mind is braced by labor and invention, the page of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A creative writing workshop will contain students whose ambitions and abilities, whose conceptions of literature itself, are so diverse that what they… — Rachel Cusk Copy Share Image
“Isn't the writing of good prose an emotional excitement?" "Yes, of course it is. At least, when you get the thing dead… — Dorothy Sayers Copy Share Image
I do teach fiction and non-fiction, and usually I'm interested in works that confuse genre, but I'm very new to teaching creative… — Kate Zambreno Copy Share Image
Some of my educated Filipino friends were aspiring poets, but their aspirations were all in the direction of the United States. They… — James Fenton Copy Share Image
“Nothing is sillier than the creative writing teacher's dictum "Write about what you know." But whether you're writing about people or dragons,… — John Gardner Copy Share Image
“The quality of any author’s effort at personal writing and thematic commentary hinges upon the author’s intrinsic limitations, personal vantage point, and… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“A word of warning here. The events as you remember them will never be the same in your memory once you have… — Judith Barrington Copy Share Image
“Writing is a pitched battle with the elusive self, a contest that resultant celebratory jubilee demonstrates the writer’s innate capacity to meld… — Kilroy J. Oldster 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
“Storytelling gives form to the metal dialogue of the mind and in doing so, reveals our self-fiction. Memory and imagination fills part… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“Writing is an effort at truth telling, but each person’s version of truth and his or her means of conveying it are… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“What’s your story? It’s all in the telling. Stories are compasses and architecture; we navigate by them, we build our sanctuaries and… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
