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
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
“The non-jocks, the readers, the gay kids, the ones starting to stew about social injustice: for these kids, "letting your freak flag… — Wally Lamb Copy Share Image
Like a Passover Poet gliding from house to house and from trembling soul to trembling soul the wind scribbled sonnets of first… — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
“IN MY SO-CALLED CAREER, I'VE OFTEN WRITTEN THINGS THAT I VAINLY THOUGHT WERE INCREDIBLY GOOD AND THAT I ENJOYED READING SO MUCH… — Scott Bradfield Copy Share Image
I do less of that stuff now because I figured out that when I was writing things I didn't care about, it… — Tod Goldberg 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 really think that if there's any one enemy to human creativity, especially creative writing, its self-consciousness. And if you have one… — Anonymous 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
Actually, I've taught creative writing in Turkey, at an English language university, where the students were native Turkish speakers, but they were… — Elif Batuman 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
“Language is a living being that grows and dies. It can be healthy, sick, nurtured, or malnourished. It all depends on those… — Louis Yako 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
I got my undergrad in Creative Writing, and then I didn't get my Masters in obsession, because I figured I already had… — Julie Powell Copy Share Image
“If you criticize what you’re doing too early you’ll never write the first line.” [ Paris Review , interview with Jodi Daynard,… — Max Frisch Copy Share Image
When I taught at the University of Houston in the Creative Writing program we required the poets to take workshops in fiction… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
A surprising number of teens I meet in rougher schools around the country find refuge in novels and creative writing. It's not… — Matt de la Pena 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
There are too many "creative writing" courses and seminars, in which young wirters are constantly being taught to rewrite the previous generation.… — John Dos Passos Copy Share Image
Like most-maybe all- writers, I learned to write by writing and, by example, by reading books. — Francine Prose Copy Share Image
