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
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all creative writers need a certain amount of time when they're creating something where nobody should criticize them at all - at… — Gena Rowlands Copy Share Image
Nice writing isn't enough. It isn't enough to have smooth and pretty language. You have to surprise the reader frequently, you can't… — Anne Bernays Copy Share Image
I don't write huge books any more. I used to write 1,000 printed pages, but now I write short books. I did… — Paul Johnson Copy Share Image
How could poetry and literature have arisen from something as plebian as the cuneiform equivalent of grocery-store bar codes? I prefer the… — Alice Weaver Flaherty Copy Share Image
“Bye-bye. Nice knowing you. But if you are waiting for that perfect idea to strike like lightning during a dust storm (I… — Darynda Jones Copy Share Image
The link between Vreeland and Guggenheim is their mutual sense of reinvention and transformation. That made something click inside of me as… — Lisa Immordino Vreeland Copy Share Image
In the end, it's about the reality. You want something that's believable in the performances; you want something that's believable in the… — Matt Czuchry Copy Share Image
Perfectionism has nothing to do with getting it right. It has nothing to do with fixing things. It has nothing to do… — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
I just tried to come up with some honest songs. What I was writing about was real plain stuff that I wasn't… — John Prine Copy Share Image
“Forget what they say about “write what you know.” Write what excites your imagination, and the knowledge you need can be acquired.… — Charles Kowalski Copy Share Image
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The reason is that they define how I have gone about my business. I have trusted to intuition. I did it at… — V. S. Naipaul Copy Share Image
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“I'm an inclusionist. I've always divided up (very, very broadly, I admit) the artistic instincts into the inclusionist and the exclusionist. The… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
My mother had always taught me to write about my feelings instead of sharing really personal things with others, so I spent… — Cathy Guisewite Copy Share Image
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“Ending a series is a difficult one …where should a story that you have followed for so long end? When do you… — Shandy L. Kurth Copy Share Image
Mountains are nature's testimonials of anguish. They are the sharp cry of a groaning and travailing creation. Nature's stern agony writes itself… — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
One might almost fear," writes a thoughtful woman, "seeing how the women of to-day are lightly stirred up to run after some… — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
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When I'm writing I've been playing something for a couple of hours and I'm almost in a trance. At two or three… — Kate Bush Copy Share Image
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I personally have a great deal of respect for readers. I have a great deal of respect for the human race. I… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
When someone writes something hateful and threatening I respond with something like, "I want to be so much like you; I want… — Jenny Lawson Copy Share Image
Here's what I love: when a great writer turns me into a Jew from Chicago, a lesbian out of South Carolina, or… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
I think of poetry as a very inclusive term. Still, it's interesting that people want to make the distinction. I love the… — Matthea Harvey Copy Share Image
The point really is that a writer tends to write a book that he or she tends to write. It's as simple… — Vikram Seth Copy Share Image
I want to keep growing as a writer. I find myself doing unexpected projects and sort of challenging my idea of where… — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
Hardly anybody ever writes anything nice about introverts. Extroverts rule. This is rather odd when you realise that about nineteen writers out… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Definitely haven't been doing writing. I'm so intimated by it now because I sort of put it to bed after I graduated,… — Lily Rabe 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 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)
