--- title: "3 Creative writing Quotes By Tod Goldberg" description: "3 Creative writing quotes by Tod Goldberg. Plus more from Tod Goldberg and more Creative writing sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/339/tod-goldberg-17468_absurd_my-god-people-are-selling-their-work-and_1305178.jpg" --- > [My god, people are selling their work and people are reading it! The horror! That MFA programs have to advertise that they'll…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tod-goldberg/my-god-people-are-selling-their-work-and-people-are-reading-it-the/) [Tod Goldberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tod-goldberg/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/339/tod-goldberg-17468_absurd_my-god-people-are-selling-their-work-and_1305178.jpg) > [I'm not Pollyanna - I know that my personality and my opinions and how I approach the teaching of writing maybe isn't…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tod-goldberg/i-m-not-pollyanna-i-know-that-my-personality-and-my-opinions-and-how/) [Tod Goldberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tod-goldberg/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/67d/tod-goldberg-17468_academy_i-m-not-pollyanna-i-know-that-my-persona_2157375.jpg) > [I do less of that stuff now because I figured out that when I was writing things I didn't care about, it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tod-goldberg/i-do-less-of-that-stuff-now-because-i-figured-out-that-when-i-was/) [Tod Goldberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tod-goldberg/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5c0/tod-goldberg-17468_angry_i-do-less-of-that-stuff-now-because-i-fi_2961148.jpg) ## Other authors on Creative writing - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b001/author-amit-kalantri-279.jpg) Amit Kalantri 87 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/creative-writing/amit-kalantri/) - [Kilroy J. Oldster 10 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/creative-writing/kilroy-j-oldster/) - [Ralph Waldo Emerson 8 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/creative-writing/ralph-waldo-emerson/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b015/author-kurt-vonnegut-58049.jpg) Kurt Vonnegut 7 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/creative-writing/kurt-vonnegut/) - [Kamand Kojouri 5 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/creative-writing/kamand-kojouri/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b003/author-aberjhani-8924.jpg) Aberjhani 5 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/creative-writing/aberjhani/) ## More by Tod Goldberg > [I found myself thinking a lot about my own spirituality. What it means to be Jewish, what it means to forgive, what it means…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tod-goldberg/i-found-myself-thinking-a-lot-about-my-own-spirituality-what-it-means/) [Tod Goldberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tod-goldberg/) > [I think, generally, the flawed anti-hero is much more interesting than the normal hero, and that's really what we're talking about here as it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tod-goldberg/i-think-generally-the-flawed-anti-hero-is-much-more-interesting-than/) [Tod Goldberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tod-goldberg/) > [I think my philosophy has evolved over the years. I started teaching almost 15 years ago and I've learned that how one student learns…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tod-goldberg/i-think-my-philosophy-has-evolved-over-the-years-i-started-teaching/) [Tod Goldberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tod-goldberg/) > [We understand a person with problems, someone who is wrong about a lot of things in his or her life, who makes messes. We…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tod-goldberg/we-understand-a-person-with-problems-someone-who-is-wrong-about-a-lot/) [Tod Goldberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tod-goldberg/) > [You don't see Los Angeles erecting a museum dedicated to the birth place of the Crips and the Bloods and the Mexican Mafia, with…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tod-goldberg/you-don-t-see-los-angeles-erecting-a-museum-dedicated-to-the-birth/) [Tod Goldberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tod-goldberg/) > [“The danger of drawing parallels is that some things are always inequalities.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tod-goldberg/the-danger-of-drawing-parallels-is-that-some-things-are-always/) [Tod Goldberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tod-goldberg/) > [We like the idea of a guy who gets away with it ("it" in this case being a variety of things: murder, robbery, general…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tod-goldberg/we-like-the-idea-of-a-guy-who-gets-away-with-it-it-in-this-case-being/) [Tod Goldberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tod-goldberg/) > [“Sam took another sip of the pruno. It went down smoother this time, possibly because he no longer had feeling in his extremities.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tod-goldberg/sam-took-another-sip-of-the-pruno-it-went-down-smoother-this-time/) [Tod Goldberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tod-goldberg/) > [So for a long time, I did a lot of freelance writing in addition to writing fiction and such - I was a food…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tod-goldberg/so-for-a-long-time-i-did-a-lot-of-freelance-writing-in-addition-to/) [Tod Goldberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tod-goldberg/) > [The fact is, though, what I think we really like is Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, Robert De Niro and James Gandolfini. We like what…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tod-goldberg/the-fact-is-though-what-i-think-we-really-like-is-marlon-brando-al/) [Tod Goldberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tod-goldberg/) > [“I think you two forgot how to love each other, and that’s just like poison. Worst thing you can do is forgot how to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tod-goldberg/i-think-you-two-forgot-how-to-love-each-other-and-that-s-just-like/) [Tod Goldberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tod-goldberg/) > [It's an unusual way to write a crime novel, to have these lingering, fairly large story points, but it's something I knew I had…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tod-goldberg/it-s-an-unusual-way-to-write-a-crime-novel-to-have-these-lingering/) [Tod Goldberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tod-goldberg/) > [There's an old, private cemetery here in Palm Springs, where I live, just down the street from the airport, that belongs to one of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tod-goldberg/there-s-an-old-private-cemetery-here-in-palm-springs-where-i-live/) [Tod Goldberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tod-goldberg/) > [I was thinking a lot about the aftermath of bad choices, how people deal with the trauma of having survived trauma, if that makes…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tod-goldberg/i-was-thinking-a-lot-about-the-aftermath-of-bad-choices-how-people/) [Tod Goldberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tod-goldberg/) > [My god, people are selling their work and people are reading it! The horror! That MFA programs have to advertise that they'll let you…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tod-goldberg/my-god-people-are-selling-their-work-and-people-are-reading-it-the/) [Tod Goldberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tod-goldberg/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/creative-writing/tod-goldberg/#itemlist", "name": "3 Creative writing Quotes By Tod Goldberg", "numberOfItems": 3, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "My god, people are selling their work and people are reading it! The horror! That MFA programs have to advertise that they'll let you write YA or fantasy or what-have-you is just absurd, but we do, because the presumption is that they're closed to that sort of thing. You're offering an MFA in creative writing? 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