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
“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
From my years of teaching creative writing, I know that new writers take the setting for granted, as simply a place to… — Garry Disher Copy Share Image
I see creative-writing classes as some sort of AA meeting. It is more of a support group for people who write than… — Etgar Keret Copy Share Image
I've always wanted to entertain people, and when I was in school, I was interested in creative writing, but wrestling was always… — AJ Lee 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 haven't taught creative writing all that much (my CW teaching consists of a few summer workshops for elementary school children and… — Mary J. Miller Copy Share Image
“Buster sat on the curb in front of the college, waiting for his sister to pick him up. To pass the time,… — Kevin Wilson Copy Share Image
Most writers - poets in especial - prefer having it understood that they compose by a species of fine frenzy - an… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
For me, being a good creative writing teacher is actually kind of being a good therapist. The line is very porous -… — Annie Baker Copy Share Image
“After graduating, I'd moved to the Washington D.C. area to see what I could do with the skills I'd picked up from… — Jeff Deck Copy Share Image
As with many teens, my first jobs included babysitting and mopping floors at McDonald's. Since then, I've held jobs a diverse as… — Therese Fowler 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
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
“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
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
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
A poet has to adapt himself, more or less consciously,to the demands of his vocation, and hence the peculiarities of poets and… — Stephen Spender Copy Share Image
