“Self-doubt is every writer’s nemesis. While healthy in moderation, unchecked self-doubt can lead to procrastination, crippling perfectionism, and ultimately failure. If you’re… — Will Raywood Copy Share Image
Dance above the surface of the world. Let your thoughts lift you into creativity that is not hampered by opinion. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Father has a strengthening character like the sun and mother has a soothing temper like the moon.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
To say that creative writing courses are all useless is almost as silly as saying all editors are useless. Writers of all… — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
Creative Writing was not a form of psychotherapy, in ways both sublime and ridiculuous, it clearly was, precisely that. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I don't really believe in a creative-writing major as an undergraduate. It's a bad idea, terrible. I've met creative-writing majors from other… — Barry Hannah Copy Share Image
The formula for creative writing in high school or college is write what you know. — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
The novelist's ambition is not to do something better than his predecessors but to see what they did not see, say what… — Milan Kundera 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
From my years of teaching creative writing, I know that new writers take the setting for granted, as simply a place to… — Garry Disher 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
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
A great writer reveals the truth even when he or she does not wish to. — Tom Bissell Copy Share Image
The act of writing itself is much like the construction of a mirror made of words. Looking at certain illuminated corners of… — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
“Creative writing is your ability to develop your inner tension, your libido, your supply of energy and electric charge, turning the charge… — Lara Biyuts Copy Share Image
Plot is a map and I begin with it. It is what made me admire the novels of the 19th century; that… — John Irving Copy Share Image
“You’ve probably all seen this place before. It’s a large field filled with really old pecan trees. They are planted in rows… — Leah Rae Miller 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 worry that people think you have to go to a university to be a good writer, which is categorically untrue. I… — Samantha Shannon Copy Share Image
By what he chooses to present and by how he presents it, any author expresses his fundamental, metaphysical values. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
I fell into playwriting accidentally, took some classes in it, and also took creative writing classes, but I really didn't expect it… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
