If you can't play all the instruments in the orchestra of story, no matter what music may be in your imagination, you're… — Robert McKee 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
“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
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
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 did go to UCLA for art, but the other option was going to Sarah Lawrence and doing creative writing all the… — Emily Ratajkowski 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
“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
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
Given the devaluation of literature and of the study of foreign languages per se in the United States, as well as the… — Marilyn Hacker Copy Share Image
These kids will make you cry, laugh... They make you feel all kinds of emotions through their writings and they share a… — Clinton D. Powell Copy Share Image
I love puppies, and I love animals in general. Besides that, I do martial arts: extreme martial arts. I also play real… — Cameron Monaghan Copy Share Image
I never attended a creative writing class in my life. I have a horror of them; most writers groups moonlight as support… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
When I read students’ attempts at creative writing it is obvious immediately that most of them have not read much or widely.… — Julius Lester 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
If you want to write something completely unique, you will probably fail or at best write something without redeeming value. The mind… — Janet Morris 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
Linda Svendsen's 'Marine Life' was important. I was nearly 22. Larry Mathews discussed the book in a creative writing class. We examined… — Michael Winter 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
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
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
“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
I knew I wanted to do something creative, and you don't necessarily go to Harvard to do that. It's not the best… — Gabrielle Zevin 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
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
None of my English teachers in college were praising me or telling me I was anything special. But then in creative writing… — John Brandon 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
“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
“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
“Before we complicated life with money, machines and missiles we did well with morals, manpower and meetings.” — Amit Kalantri 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
I'm often asked how I write books, but I don't think my approach is suitable for everyone. If I walked into a… — Ian Rankin Copy Share Image
If I were to go back to the Philippines, I would probably end up teaching creative writing at a university. I wouldn't… — Miguel Syjuco 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
My father's father wrote for a Philadelphia newspaper and aspired to be a playwright. We had in our house a couple of… — Stephen Gaghan 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
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
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
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
