“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
“Take care of your costume and your confidence will take care of itself.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
I've always written. When I was in school, the only teacher who ever liked me was my creative writing teacher. I used… — Justin Townes Earle Copy Share Image
When I was at UCLA, a professor there encouraged me to write, and so I looked into specializing in creative writing in… — Randall Park 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
“The smell of the sweat is not sweet, but the fruit of the sweat is very sweet.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
Start dating someone who is funny, someone who has what in high school you called a "really great sense of humor" and… — Lorrie Moore 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
I really think that if there's any one enemy to human creativity, especially creative writing, it's self-consciousness. — Andre Dubus Copy Share Image
“We are taken through the pursuit of the American dream, the establishment of the American family, and a smattering of suspense and… — Nikita Allgire Copy Share Image
“Because at night when others are sleeping, I drown myself in poetry.” — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
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… — Pat Pattison Copy Share Image
All the elements of good writing depend on the writer's skill in choosing one word instead of another. — Francine Prose Copy Share Image
“No one should go into debt to study creative writing. It’s simply not worth it. This is not medical school.” — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
The maker of a sentence launches out into the infinite and builds a road into Chaos and old Night, and is followed… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Creativity is a magic wand that works two ways. When you set it in action and seek to create something, it does… — Jyoti Arora Copy Share Image
When I write what publishers call 'fantasy' I am writing in what I think is the most important tradition of fiction: starting… — Janet Morris Copy Share Image
“Every time you go to see Hamlet you don't expect it to have a happy ending...you're still enthralled. (Interview BBC Radio 4… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
To me there is no such thing as creative writing. It's either good writing, whatever the subject, or it's not creative. — Erskine Caldwell Copy Share Image
I left the University of Chicago's creative writing program for a tenure-track job at DePauw University in Indiana, then left DePauw in… — Nic Pizzolatto Copy Share Image
“Johnson's later life, from 1763, is among the best documented of all literary lives. James Boswell gave himself the enormous task, after… — Ronald Carter Copy Share Image
