Creative writing Quotes

“When in doubt, be braver.”

— Orna Ross

I've always been into creative writing.

— Ivan Moody

“AI is an abomination of creativity.”

— Abhijit Naskar

“Great losses are great lessons.”

— Amit Kalantri

“Don't mention your move before you make a move.”

— Amit Kalantri

My first semester, I got a D in creative writing.

— Conrad Hall

“All worries are less with wine.”

— Amit Kalantri

“You may be a poet and not even know it.”

— M.L. Shanahan

The formula for creative writing in high school or college is write what you know.

— Toni Morrison

“Mixing old wine with new wine is stupidity, but mixing old wisdom with new wisdom is maturity.”

— Amit Kalantri

I never attended a creative writing class in my life. I have a horror of them.

— Zadie Smith

A great writer reveals the truth even when he or she does not wish to.

— Tom Bissell

“I majored in Creative Writing in college. Then I got over it.”

— Donald E. McQuinn

Poetry is something that happens in universities, in creative writing programs or in English departments.

— Mark Strand

“You can take the Indian out of the family, but you cannot take the family out of the Indian.”

— Amit Kalantri

Fantasy is the impossible made probable. Science Fiction is the improbable made possible.

— Rod Serling

If he can give his readers no reason why they should read his book, except that the events happened to him, it…

— Ayn Rand

I got out of college and I went to get my master's in creative writing at San Francisco State. I was working…

— Peter Coyote

“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

“Parents expect only two things from their children, obedience in their childhood and respect in their adulthood.”

— Amit Kalantri

“I find it helpful when I stop for the day to leave the last sentence unfinished or the last paragraph only lightly…

— julia bell

“Every time you go to see Hamlet you don't expect it to have a happy ending...you're still enthralled. (Interview BBC Radio 4…

— Hilary Mantel

The best visual book I can think of is Lynda Barry's What It Is, but although I refer to it all the…

— Jeff VanderMeer

“Plays are nearly always about the consequences of events while films are usually about the events. The what-happens-next factor is essential in…

— Richard Toscan

The ways in which a standardized language test induces storytelling, for example, is the opposite of creative writing; you have to learn…

— Alejandro Zambra

One of the unfortunate things about creative writing courses is that they make people impatient. People feel that they have prepared themselves…

— Robert Dessaix

The effects of MFA programs, and the rise of creative writing instruction more generally, are far more diffuse than people think. Even…

— Chad Harbach

“In translation of poetry; there exists a possibility of components like imagination, art of wordplay, skill of constructing internal rhythm and expand…

— Suman Pokhrel

“Well, look at it another way: why shouldn’t there be cats in a zoo?" I said. "They’re animals, too, right?" "Cats and…

— Haruki Murakami

I was an English major in college, I went to a creative-writing program, and all my life, I really read and thought…

— Tom Perrotta

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

I flew into a small airport surrounded by cornfields and pastures, ready to carry out the two commands my father had written…

— Bharati Mukherjee

“Human beings innate complexities resist reduction into simple sentences and neat paragraphs. The stories that come nearest to expressing the ambivalent nature…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

“Writers’ never-ending quest involves investigating genuineness while carving out narrative nonfiction. They must strive to reach great truths by recounting untold lies…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

“Here is a lesson in creative writing. First rule: Do not use semicolons. They are transvestite hermaphrodites representing absolutely nothing. All they…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“The struggle for a life extracts all our attention, and leaves us blind, deaf, dumb and senseless. The writer, the artist, the…

— Anu Lal

For some reason there's this myth that creativity - [especially] in terms of creative writing - is a gift you either have,…

— Sarah Kay

“What’s your story? It’s all in the telling. Stories are compasses and architecture; we navigate by them, we build our sanctuaries and…

— Rebecca Solnit

“The first time I read Isaac Babel was in a college creative writing class. The instructor was a sympathetic Jewish novelist with…

— Elif Batuman

“Writing is an effort at truth telling, but each person’s version of truth and his or her means of conveying it are…

— Kilroy J. Oldster