“Creativity without discipline will struggle, creativity with discipline will succeed.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
A good creative-writing teacher can save a good writer a lot of time. — Richard Hugo Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, creative people are at their most creative when writing their autobiographies. — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
I went to school for creative writing in college, and I wound up about six hours short of my degree. — Jason Isbell Copy Share Image
All writing is communication; creative writing is communication through revelation-it is the Self-escaping into the open. — E. B. White Copy Share Image
I really think that if there's any one enemy to human creativity, especially creative writing, it's self-consciousness. — Andre Dubus Copy Share Image
All the things that live within you find their place, in character and story, once you tap into that other space that… — Francesca Gregorini Copy Share Image
As I tell my intro creative writing students, after reading someone you love, wait at least an hour before starting to write. — Matthew Healy Copy Share Image
“No one should go into debt to study creative writing. It’s simply not worth it. This is not medical school.” — Ann Patchett 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
“Poetry isn’t an island, it is the bridge. Poetry isn’t a ship, it is the lifeboat. Poetry isn’t swimming. Poetry is water.” — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
“The best way to write is to lock yourself in a small room until you become so bored that the only thing… — Jack Freestone Copy Share Image
When I applied to Stanford, I applied for graduate work in the PhD program, not to the creative writing program, mostly because… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
“Sadly, but certainly, a promising genre of literature in poetry that began with pomp and a loud thud, a banger and an… — Alok Mishra Copy Share Image
Never write about a place until you're away from it, because it gives you perspective. Immediately after you've seen something you can… — Ernest Hemingway 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
When I write what publishers call 'fantasy' I am writing in what I think is the most important tradition of fiction: starting… — Janet Morris 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
I don't know much about creative writing programs. But they're not telling the truth if they don't teach, one, that writing is… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
The one thing emphasized in any creative writing course is 'write what you know,' and that automatically drives a wooden stake through… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
An understandable hunger for potential clients tempts many [career counseling therapists] to overpromise, like creative writing teachers who, out of greed or… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
“Workshop Hermeticism, fiction for which the highest praise involves the words 'competent,' 'finished,' 'problem-free,' fiction over which Writing-Program pre- and proscriptions loom… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“There’s nothing about me on the jacket because I have no credentials. I majored in English at school, but I only took… — Paul Neilan Copy Share Image
“Writing is a pitched battle with the elusive self, a contest that resultant celebratory jubilee demonstrates the writer’s innate capacity to meld… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“You’ve probably all seen this place before. It’s a large field filled with really old pecan trees. They are planted in rows… — Leah Rae Miller Copy Share Image
“There are always messages, even enigmas to be searched, mysteries to be solved in all of my books. I like to puzzle… — Ana Claudia Antunes Copy Share Image
“Creative writer has artistic sensibility. He observes the world like any common men. But his vision observes the world quite differently. He… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
“...why is it that, in creative writing courses today, the very first thing we teach students is write what you know? Perhaps… — Elif Shafak Copy Share Image
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