If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“A powerful process automatically takes care of progress, productivity and profits.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
“What is it about us lady authors and our fascination for the exclamation mark?” — E.A. Bucchianeri Copy Share Image
“Unrest has entered the hearts of men. When unrest is left to fester, Chaos will soon follow.” — S.D. Ferrell Copy Share Image
A creative writing class may be one of the last places you can go where your life still matters. — Richard Hugo Copy Share Image
Without craft, art remains private. Without art, craft is merely hackwork. — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
All writing is communication; creative writing is communication through revelation-it is the Self-escaping into the open. — E. B. White 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
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
“Your passion as an artist is a magnet that draws you at all times, but if you don’t follow, it will suffocate… — Pawan Mishra 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
I've been writing short stories for twenty years now, on and off ever since I was in the creative writing program at… — Andrew Lam Copy Share Image
“You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have. As quoted in Conversations with Maya Angelou (1989)” — by Jeffrey M. Elliot Copy Share Image
A creative writing program is only as good as its teachers, and I was fortunate in having two great writers as mentors. — Jay McInerney Copy Share Image
I did not believe political directives could be successfully applied to creative writing . . . not to poetry or fiction, which… — Langston Hughes Copy Share Image
I'm a writer who stacks cat food for a living. It's true: I have a master's degree in creative writing, I've published… — Ali Liebegott Copy Share Image
I played around with GarageBand before, but I'd never actually made a proper song. So it was getting into the studio with… — Benee Copy Share Image
I know people who've passed every creative writing course under the sun and who are more analytically intelligent and far better-read than… — Suhayl Saadi Copy Share Image
“Stories aren’t lies; they are integral to our search for truth and meaning. Our species has been trying to make sense of… — Will Raywood Copy Share Image
You don't write a novel out of sheer pity any more than you blow a safe out of a vague longing to… — Nelson Algren Copy Share Image
For a while the creative writing community sort of sprung out of places like Iowa and Syracuse. The graduates sort of went… — Ted Kooser Copy Share Image
In high school, in 1956, at the age of sixteen, we were not taught "creative writing." We were taught literature and grammar.… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Growing up as a kid, I took creative writing classes, and I was always into poetry. — Ivan Moody Copy Share Image
In creative writing, I teach that characters arise out of our need for them. — Marlon James 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
“Inside is where we meet everyone else; it's on the outside that we are truly alone.” — Charles Simic Copy Share Image
“Perhaps, writing is like the taste of honey sucked from flowers in a garden, each tasting differently.” — Anu Lal Copy Share Image
I am basically analytical, not creative; my writing is simply a creative way of handling analysis. — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
“Because at night when others are sleeping, I drown myself in poetry.” — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
The truth, or success, of any writer's story lies partly in its specificity and its emotional honesty. — Gail Caldwell Copy Share Image
“Politeness is the first thing people lose once they get the power.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
Becoming a writer means being creative enough to find the time and the place in your life for writing. — Heather Sellers Copy Share Image
“In modern times couples are more concerned about loyalty than love.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
There is the great creative part of it. The writing is the best part. — Cynthia Weil Copy Share Image
Creative writing programmes are not very necessary. They just exist so that people like us can make a living. — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie 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
