The best and only true history we have. Everyone interested in creative writing should know this book. — Tony Ardizzone Copy Share Image
I have ALWAYS wanted to write - I was the seven-year old entering local library poetry contests, and I recently found my… — Lee Kelly Copy Share Image
All the things that live within you find their place, in character and story, once you tap into that other space that… — Francesca Gregorini Copy Share Image
“A creative writing teacher at San Jose State used to say about clichés: 'Avoid them like the plague.' Then he'd laugh at… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
Good prose almost always requires both showing and telling, scenes and summary, the two basic components of creative prose. — Laurie Alberts Copy Share Image
Creative writing lessons can be very useful, just like music lessons can be useful. To say, as Hanif Kureishi did, that 99.9%… — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
“It has always seemed to me to imply some abstract learning scenario wherein a generic would-be writer is acted upon by unnamed… — Harris Crenshaw 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
“Create. Not for the money. Not for the fame. Not for the recognition. But for the pure joy of creating something and… — Ernest Barbaric Copy Share Image
If you want to write something completely unique, you will probably fail or at best write something without redeeming value. The mind… — Janet Morris Copy Share Image
I kind of came from the Townes Van Zandt school of throwing yourself off a cliff and then that's what you write… — John Fullbright 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
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
You have to give up a great deal of life, your personal life, to be a writer. — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
I never attended a creative writing class in my life. I have a horror of them; most writers groups moonlight as support… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
These kids will make you cry, laugh... They make you feel all kinds of emotions through their writings and they share a… — Clinton D. Powell 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
“...why is it that, in creative writing courses today, the very first thing we teach students is write what you know? Perhaps… — Elif Shafak 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 had just begun an M.A. in Creative Writing, and I had to write a novel, so I began writing a novel… — Neel Mukherjee Copy Share Image
The only good grades I ever got in school before I was kicked out were for creative writing. I thought that fiction… — Rick Springfield Copy Share Image
