“Some people when they see cheese, chocolate or cake they don't think of calories.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
“Respect cannot be inherited, respect is the result of right actions.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
I don't think the creative writing industry has helped American poetry. — Robert Morgan Copy Share Image
Most applicants to creative writing programs submit stories about the angst of their suburban childhoods. — Eileen Pollack Copy Share Image
To be the kind of writer you want to be, you must first be the kind of thinker you want to be. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“Brilliance of the brain must be admired more than beauty of the body.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
“Common man's patience will bring him more happiness than common man's power.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
“If thinking should precede acting, then acting must succeed thinking.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
Creative Writing was not a form of psychotherapy, in ways both sublime and ridiculuous, it clearly was, precisely that. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Stories trace their roots to impassioned human interactions with the world. I always sense a storyline as an emotional yearning embedded in… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
To me there is no such thing as creative writing. It's either good writing, whatever the subject, or it's not creative. — Erskine Caldwell Copy Share Image
“It’s despicable of an author to kill his main personage solely for stirring imagination of indifferent or mean minds.” — Lara Biyuts Copy Share Image
Writing for me is a form of spiritual discipline and creative vision, a means of being in the world and giving one's… — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
Well, my background is journalism. I don't have any creative-writing experience except for one class I took as a sophomore in college. — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
“I told him I wanted to major in creative writing and sit around in yoga pants and do nothing but write books… — Colleen Hoover Copy Share Image
I got my undergrad in Creative Writing, and then I didn't get my Masters in obsession, because I figured I already had… — Julie Powell Copy Share Image
There is then creative reading as well as creative writing. When the mind is braced by labor and invention, the page of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
And after about two years, I realized that creative writing was not going to help you ace those biological tests. So I… — Bob Schieffer Copy Share Image
“Self-doubt is every writer’s nemesis. While healthy in moderation, unchecked self-doubt can lead to procrastination, crippling perfectionism, and ultimately failure. If you’re… — Will Raywood Copy Share Image
“People won't see Imagination in something that doesn't relate to their experience because of their own mental limitations. I want people to… — Lionel Suggs Copy Share Image
I do teach fiction and non-fiction, and usually I'm interested in works that confuse genre, but I'm very new to teaching creative… — Kate Zambreno Copy Share Image
“A creative writing teacher at San Jose State used to say about clichés: 'Avoid them like the plague.' Then he'd laugh at… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
For the last few years, I've enjoyed writing my own stuff since studying creative writing at school, and as I've grown up,… — Himesh Patel Copy Share Image
The formula for creative writing in high school or college is write what you know. And I said they don't know nothing.… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
“I often tell my students that there is creative reading, creative thinking, not just creative writing. He said a basketball game was… — Richard Ehrlich Copy Share Image
“She’d read countless fantasy novels where the heroine was a chosen one, picked from all others to save the world, normally wearing… — Christopher G. Nuttall Copy Share Image
“Here is a lesson in creative writing. First rule: Do not use semicolons. They are transvestite hermaphrodites representing absolutely nothing. All they… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“…I’ve seen the world tell us with wars and real estate developments and bad politics and odd court decisions that our lives… — Richard Hugo Copy Share Image
“I often said that writers are of two types. There is the architect, which is one type. The architect, as if designing… — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
“Albert never told anyone of what the guard did to him. But sometimes he smells the guard's stink in his sleep, a… — James Lee Burke Copy Share Image
“I hate to be a nag, but you have got to read. Like most authors, I run creative writing workshops from time… — Sarah Harrison Copy Share Image
“Now lend me your ears. Here is Creative Writing 101: 1. Use the time of a total stranger in such a way… — Kurt Vonnegut jr Copy Share Image
