When I went to college I took a creative writing class and decided in a week to be a writer. — David Guterson Copy Share Image
You have to give up a great deal of life, your personal life, to be a writer. — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
I always got good grades in creative writing from elementary school on up. — Keith Hernandez Copy Share Image
“With discipline, you can lose weight, you can excel in work, you can win the war.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
One professor in college told me flat out I wasn't good enough to enter the creative writing program. I saved that letter… — Ellen Potter Copy Share Image
There is no adequate definition for creative writing, any more than it is possible to describe pain or flavor or color. — Fannie Hurst Copy Share Image
I was an English major in college, took a ton of creative writing courses, and was a newspaper reporter for 10 years. — Jennifer Weiner Copy Share Image
To say that creative writing courses are all useless is almost as silly as saying all editors are useless. Writers of all… — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
By what he chooses to present and by how he presents it, any author expresses his fundamental, metaphysical values. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
One must be drenched in words, literally soaked in them, to have the right ones form themselves into the proper pattern at… — Hart Crane Copy Share Image
Good prose almost always requires both showing and telling, scenes and summary, the two basic components of creative prose. — Laurie Alberts Copy Share Image
I was in law school at the University of Kentucky and realized I didn't really like law school, so I took a… — Karen Robards Copy Share Image
I never attended a creative writing class in my life. I have a horror of them; most writers groups moonlight as support… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
After I started publishing poetry I got to teach creative writing. Eventually I was promoted and even got tenure. But then I… — Joan Larkin Copy Share Image
My god, people are selling their work and people are reading it! The horror! That MFA programs have to advertise that they'll… — Tod Goldberg Copy Share Image
I think good creative writing opens up space for people to come into. Let God reach out and touch the human soul.… — William P. Young Copy Share Image
Creative writing teachers should be purged until every last instructor who has uttered the words 'Write what you know' is confined to… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
I got a degree in English from Brigham Young University, but I didnt study creative writingjust literature. I was too much a… — Stephenie Meyer Copy Share Image
A lot of novelists start late-Conrad, Pirandello, even Mark Twain. When you're young, chess is all right, and music and poetry. But… — James M. Cain Copy Share Image
“Described as a "workaholic speed-writing freak" by fellow writers, a "creative writing class drill sergeant" by his writing 'padawans', Voinov is a… — Aleksandr Voinov Copy Share Image
“Arrogant men with knowledge make more noise from their mouth than making a sense from their mind.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
“He who sacrifices his respect for love basically burns his body to obtain the light.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
“Most of the people readily accept the principle but resist its practice.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
“The purpose of a profession is to fulfil the personal wishes of a prospect.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
“In any game, the game itself is the prize, no matter who wins, ultimately both lose the game.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
One must be an inventor to read well. There is then creative reading as well as creative writing. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“In your name, the family name is at last because it's the family name that lasts.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
A blend of fact and fiction has been used in various forms since the dawn of creative writing, starting with sagas and… — Antony Beevor Copy Share Image
The books people are writing today, they're too long. You get a little bit of plot, and then pages and pages of… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
The phenomenon of university creative writing programs doesn't exist in France. The whole idea is regarded as a novelty, or an oddity. — Marilyn Hacker Copy Share Image
I did not go to any creative writing workshop; I did not major in literature. If I can write, anyone can write.… — Vikas Swarup Copy Share Image
Now that I'm staring down the barrel of the last act of my life, I'm less excited about control and solo effort,… — David Knopfler Copy Share Image
“For few matters you need to be solo, for some matters you need soul mate and for many matters you need society,” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
“In the business people with expertise, experience and evidence will make more profitable decisions than people with instinct, intuition and imagination.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
