“Every time you say blah blah blah, a creative writing teacher dies.” — Michael Lopp Copy Share Image
“Networking isn't how many people you know, it's how many people know you.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
“Seeing the mud around a lotus is pessimism, seeing a lotus in the mud is optimism.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
“Perhaps, writing is like the taste of honey sucked from flowers in a garden, each tasting differently.” — Anu Lal Copy Share Image
“Inside is where we meet everyone else; it's on the outside that we are truly alone.” — Charles Simic Copy Share Image
The professionalization of poetry, or the balkanization, has come out of the fact that when you apply to most creative writing programs,… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
“Create. Not for the money. Not for the fame. Not for the recognition. But for the pure joy of creating something and… — Ernest Barbaric 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
“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
“A certain ruthlessness and a sense of alienation from society is as essential to creative writing as it is to armed robbery.” — Nelson Algren Copy Share Image
I am an English major in school with an emphasis in creative writing. I think hearing Maya Angelou speak at school last… — Fred Savage Copy Share Image
I studied writing at NYU. I graduated high school in Nashville and then went to the creative writing program, and in the… — Harmony Korine Copy Share Image
“I’m not saying you can’t do writing, just do some writing that you can build a career on. Creative writing isn’t going… — Francesca Zappia Copy Share Image
I have done literary translation because the University of Arkansas, where I did my MFA, was program of creative writing and translation,… — Miroslav Penkov Copy Share Image
“It has always seemed to me to imply some abstract learning scenario wherein a generic would-be writer is acted upon by unnamed… — Harris Crenshaw Copy Share Image
“Isn't the writing of good prose an emotional excitement?" "Yes, of course it is. At least, when you get the thing dead… — Dorothy Sayers Copy Share Image
Some creative writing programs seem evil, but my experience at Irvine was totally the opposite, where I feel like they were really… — Aimee Bender Copy Share Image
In high school, I started training, singing with choirs, and getting voice lessons and doing a lot of creative writing and decided… — Goapele Copy Share Image
A creative writing workshop will contain students whose ambitions and abilities, whose conceptions of literature itself, are so diverse that what they… — Rachel Cusk 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
“The process doesn’t end there. Stories are more than just images. As you continue in the tale, you get to know the… — Livia Blackburne Copy Share Image
“Johnson's later life, from 1763, is among the best documented of all literary lives. James Boswell gave himself the enormous task, after… — Ronald Carter Copy Share Image
“The non-jocks, the readers, the gay kids, the ones starting to stew about social injustice: for these kids, "letting your freak flag… — Wally Lamb Copy Share Image
“At one time I thought the most important thing was talent. I think now that — the young man or the young… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
Start dating someone who is funny, someone who has what in high school you called a "really great sense of humor" and… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
The best and only true history we have. Everyone interested in creative writing should know this book. — Tony Ardizzone Copy Share Image
“In modern times couples are more concerned about loyalty than love.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
Becoming a writer means being creative enough to find the time and the place in your life for writing. — Heather Sellers Copy Share Image
There is the great creative part of it. The writing is the best part. — Cynthia Weil Copy Share Image
“Politeness is the first thing people lose once they get the power.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
The truth, or success, of any writer's story lies partly in its specificity and its emotional honesty. — Gail Caldwell Copy Share Image
I am basically analytical, not creative; my writing is simply a creative way of handling analysis. — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
“Because at night when others are sleeping, I drown myself in poetry.” — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
“Hands can cook, hands can create, hands can kill. There is no better tool than our hands.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
A critic can only review the book he has read, not the one which the writer wrote. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
