One must be an inventor to read well. There is then creative reading as well as creative writing. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Some people when they see cheese, chocolate or cake they don't think of calories.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
I hope when people ask what you're going to do with your English degree and/or creative writing degree you'll say: Continue my… — Cheryl Strayed 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
“Stories trace their roots to impassioned human interactions with the world. I always sense a storyline as an emotional yearning embedded in… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
I was a journalism major, and I would take creative writing classes as part of that, but I would also look for… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
“The first time I read Isaac Babel was in a college creative writing class. The instructor was a sympathetic Jewish novelist with… — Elif Batuman Copy Share Image
“When I was a kid, growing up during the 1970s, I used to read a lot of horror and science fiction. I… — Mark Samuels Copy Share Image
“All forms of creative thinking involve a struggle to conquer or master something, and usually that specific something eludes us completely. A… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
Creativity is a habit, and the best creativity is a result of good work habits. That's it in a nutshell ... In… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
“A writing tablet evidences the writer’s mind shadows, the dark twin that sketches the meandering of our conscious mind and taps into… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“Every time you say blah blah blah, a creative writing teacher dies.” — Michael Lopp Copy Share Image
I seem most instinctively to believe in the human value of creative writing, whether in the form of verse or fiction, as… — John Updike Copy Share Image
For the last few years, I've enjoyed writing my own stuff since studying creative writing at school, and as I've grown up,… — Himesh Patel 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
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
If he can give his readers no reason why they should read his book, except that the events happened to him, it… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
I believe the best creative writing lessons live in the specifics. — Jeff VanderMeer 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 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
After I started publishing poetry I got to teach creative writing. Eventually I was promoted and even got tenure. But then I… — Joan Larkin Copy Share Image
