I went to school for creative writing in college, and I wound up about six hours short of my degree. — Jason Isbell Copy Share Image
“In your name, the family name is at last because it's the family name that lasts.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
“Most of the people readily accept the principle but resist its practice.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
“Arrogant men with knowledge make more noise from their mouth than making a sense from their mind.” — Amit Kalantri 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
When I went to college I took a creative writing class and decided in a week to be a writer. — David Guterson Copy Share Image
I always got good grades in creative writing from elementary school on up. — Keith Hernandez Copy Share Image
“The decision is your own voice, an opinion is the echo of someone else's voice.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
Linda Svendsen's 'Marine Life' was important. I was nearly 22. Larry Mathews discussed the book in a creative writing class. We examined… — Michael Winter Copy Share Image
My favorite subject was English or creative writing. We did poems and making a magazine, and I did one on celebrities. I… — Ashley Tisdale Copy Share Image
I did go to UCLA for art, but the other option was going to Sarah Lawrence and doing creative writing all the… — Emily Ratajkowski Copy Share Image
“For you to reach a state of creative enlightenment, you must wage war on yourself, and start working. Only then will inspiration… — Chris Erzfeld Copy Share Image
If you can't play all the instruments in the orchestra of story, no matter what music may be in your imagination, you're… — Robert McKee Copy Share Image
“Before we complicated life with money, machines and missiles we did well with morals, manpower and meetings.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
“For few matters you need to be solo, for some matters you need soul mate and for many matters you need society,” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
None of my English teachers in college were praising me or telling me I was anything special. But then in creative writing… — John Brandon Copy Share Image
I was an English major in college, I went to a creative-writing program, and all my life, I really read and thought… — Tom Perrotta Copy Share Image
The ways in which a standardized language test induces storytelling, for example, is the opposite of creative writing; you have to learn… — Alejandro Zambra Copy Share Image
One of the unfortunate things about creative writing courses is that they make people impatient. People feel that they have prepared themselves… — Robert Dessaix Copy Share Image
The effects of MFA programs, and the rise of creative writing instruction more generally, are far more diffuse than people think. Even… — Chad Harbach Copy Share Image
“What is hell to a writer? Hell is being too busy to find the time to write or being unable to find… — R.M. Engelhardt Copy Share Image
I haven't taught creative writing all that much (my CW teaching consists of a few summer workshops for elementary school children and… — Mary J. Miller Copy Share Image
A poet has to adapt himself, more or less consciously,to the demands of his vocation, and hence the peculiarities of poets and… — Stephen Spender Copy Share Image
When I used to teach creative writing, I would tell the students to make their characters want something right away - even… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“After graduate school, I stumbled into teaching mostly by chance. I was lucky and picked up new fields as I taught, expanding… — Salvatore Pane Copy Share Image
I try to tell student writers to read as much as possible, not only literature but philosophy, theory, and to form obsessions.… — Kate Zambreno Copy Share Image
“Majina ya vitabu yanapaswa kuchaguliwa kwa mantiki na kwa makini ya hali ya juu mno, kwa sababu ni miongoni mwa vitu vya… — Enock Maregesi Copy Share Image
“If where you are is worthwhile then where you are from doesn't matter.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
A critic can only review the book he has read, not the one which the writer wrote. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
“Hands can cook, hands can create, hands can kill. There is no better tool than our hands.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
I majored in English with a specialization in creative writing along with Asian American Studies. — Randall Park Copy Share Image
“Cowards say it can't be done, critics say it shouldn't have been done, creator say well done.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
“The wrong man is not always wrong because of his wrong actions, often he is wrong because of no actions.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
The best and only true history we have. Everyone interested in creative writing should know this book. — Tony Ardizzone Copy Share Image
I knew I wanted to do something creative, and you don't necessarily go to Harvard to do that. It's not the best… — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
Every great and original writer, in proportion as he is great and original, must himself create the taste by which he is… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
