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
“In the business people with expertise, experience and evidence will make more profitable decisions than people with instinct, intuition and imagination.” — 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
When I used to teach creative writing, I would tell the students to make their characters want something right away. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
A piece of creative writing, like a day-dream, is a continuation of, and a substitute for, what was once the play of… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
For decades, as literary editor, I have followed the growth of our creative writing in English. In my Solidaridad Bookshop, half of… — F. Sionil Jose Copy Share Image
“War is not just the shower of bullets and bombs from both sides, it is also the shower of blood and bones… — Amit Kalantri 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
I'm not Pollyanna - I know that my personality and my opinions and how I approach the teaching of writing maybe isn't… — Tod Goldberg Copy Share Image
“MFA in a Box is designed to help you to find the courage to put truth into words and to understand that… — John Rember Copy Share Image
I certainly wasn't born with creative writing. Maybe there's a certain amount of learning and then it's up to the person. I… — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
“Branding is a lot of things, but one thing it's not is soft. When you brand, rebrand or brand-diggity, ask yourself one… — Richie Norton Copy Share Image
“Destroy your life; then put it back together.You'll get great material, meet some fascinating characters and – side benefit – the skills… — Jerry Stahl Copy Share Image
I grew up around poets and novelists and my dad wrote poems about everything - from a cat sleeping in a window… — Lucinda Williams Copy Share Image
The secret truth of 'Celebrity Apprentice' is that it isn't very hard... 'Celebrity Apprentice' is easy like junior high is easy. All… — Penn Jillette Copy Share Image
I don't think American poetry has gotten any better in the past 35 years. Oddly enough, creative writing programs seem to have… — Robert Morgan Copy Share Image
“We are taken through the pursuit of the American dream, the establishment of the American family, and a smattering of suspense and… — Nikita Allgire Copy Share Image
The books people are writing today, they're too long. You get a little bit of plot, and then pages and pages of… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
A blend of fact and fiction has been used in various forms since the dawn of creative writing, starting with sagas and… — Antony Beevor Copy Share Image
I was in law school at the University of Kentucky and realized I didn't really like law school, so I took a… — Karen Robards Copy Share Image
I was an English major in college, took a ton of creative writing courses, and was a newspaper reporter for 10 years. — Jennifer Weiner Copy Share Image
I did not go to any creative writing workshop; I did not major in literature. If I can write, anyone can write.… — Vikas Swarup Copy Share Image
The phenomenon of university creative writing programs doesn't exist in France. The whole idea is regarded as a novelty, or an oddity. — Marilyn Hacker Copy Share Image
One professor in college told me flat out I wasn't good enough to enter the creative writing program. I saved that letter… — Ellen Potter Copy Share Image
Once the travel guide came out and won an award, once I got an MFA in creative writing, once I sold my… — James Bernard Frost Copy Share Image
The writer, like everyone else, is equipped in infancy with a thick padding of things he believes to be true, but which… — Jon Franklin Copy Share Image
I didn't do a masters in creative writing until I was 26, which is quite old, and then I found myself in… — Rachel Kushner Copy Share Image
I think you have to learn for yourself how to write. I'm slightly mystified by creative writing courses - God love them… — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
There is no adequate definition for creative writing, any more than it is possible to describe pain or flavor or color. — Fannie Hurst Copy Share Image
“You can get yourself pretty thoroughly lost, in time and space, if you don't know where you are or where you have… — George Garrett Copy Share Image
Grading creative writing is always an ethical dilemma. But what you brought up about grading personal stories versus the research paper is… — Debra Monroe Copy Share Image
As one of my creative writing professors once said, there are only seven plots. What makes those plots different is how you… — Kristine Kathryn Rusch Copy Share Image
“Described as a "workaholic speed-writing freak" by fellow writers, a "creative writing class drill sergeant" by his writing 'padawans', Voinov is a… — Aleksandr Voinov Copy Share Image
My god, people are selling their work and people are reading it! The horror! That MFA programs have to advertise that they'll… — Tod Goldberg Copy Share Image
I think good creative writing opens up space for people to come into. Let God reach out and touch the human soul.… — William P. Young Copy Share Image
A lot of novelists start late-Conrad, Pirandello, even Mark Twain. When you're young, chess is all right, and music and poetry. But… — James M. Cain Copy Share Image
By striving so mightily to accomplish specific goals on behalf of one segment of humanity, she [Toni Morrison] went beyond them to… — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
Back in the days when American billboard advertising was in flower [said Hemingway], there were two slogans that I always rated above… — A. E. Hotchner Copy Share Image
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