Asking a writer what he thinks about criticism is like asking a lamppost what it feels about dogs. — John Osborne Copy Share Image
I had never taken creative writing classes. Hadn't even considered it. — Charles Frazier Copy Share Image
“All I need to do is place my pen against paper and your love writes for me.” — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
I believe the best creative writing lessons live in the specifics. — Jeff VanderMeer Copy Share Image
I had just begun an M.A. in Creative Writing, and I had to write a novel, so I began writing a novel… — Neel Mukherjee Copy Share Image
Dance above the surface of the world. Let your thoughts lift you into creativity that is not hampered by opinion. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The novelist's ambition is not to do something better than his predecessors but to see what they did not see, say what… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
Around eighth grade I decided I wanted to be a composer and that's what I went to college for. Just a few… — Joanna Newsom Copy Share Image
In fact, the very phrase "teaching creative writing" sounds to me oxymoronic. How can you teach someone to be creative? — Yuriy Tarnawsky Copy Share Image
“Good becomes better by playing against better, but better doesn't become the best by playing against good.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
After finishing my undergraduate work at the University of Iowa, where I took creative writing classes taught by Writer's Workshop students, I… — Andrew Shaffer Copy Share Image
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hough I was creative, I also liked math and science. At Knox College, I studied creative writing and earned a degree in… — Mary Pope Osborne Copy Share Image
“Harrison wrote a two-page poem about his deep feelings of loss when his dog Filbert died, and Mrs. Minerva, the creative writing… — Joan Bauer Copy Share Image
I majored in English in college and that was my major in graduate school before switching to creative writing. I read a… — Stephen Dobyns Copy Share Image
We really had the whole piece laid out in like a Word file, just from beginning to end. It was kind of… — Crowder Copy Share Image
In the world of the American creative writing workshop, I've encountered teachers who are tempted to place, or have actually placed, a… — Laura van den Berg Copy Share Image
I'm very interested in the materiality of language. I wonder if, perhaps, this comes from my background in the visual arts. I… — Anna Journey Copy Share Image
Metaphors are not user-friendly. They're difficult to find and difficult to use well. Unfortunately, metaphors are a mainstay of good lyric writing-indeed… — Pat Pattison Copy Share Image
“Storytelling gives form to the metal dialogue of the mind and in doing so, reveals our self-fiction. Memory and imagination fills part… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“The quality of any author’s effort at personal writing and thematic commentary hinges upon the author’s intrinsic limitations, personal vantage point, and… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“Nothing is sillier than the creative writing teacher's dictum "Write about what you know." But whether you're writing about people or dragons,… — John Gardner Copy Share Image
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“A word of warning here. The events as you remember them will never be the same in your memory once you have… — Judith Barrington Copy Share Image
I have ALWAYS wanted to write - I was the seven-year old entering local library poetry contests, and I recently found my… — Lee Kelly Copy Share Image
“After graduate school, I stumbled into teaching mostly by chance. I was lucky and picked up new fields as I taught, expanding… — Salvatore Pane Copy Share Image
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![“I majored in English in college and that was my major in graduate school before switching to creative writing. I read a lot of [Charles] Dickens and [Anthony ] Trollope, but there was lots of stuff I hadn't read like Thackeray's "Vanity Fair," which is so well written and funny.” quote by Stephen Dobyns](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/693/stephen-dobyns-13599_college_i-majored-in-english-in-college-and-that_1010174.jpg)
