Bad Quote by Amitava Kumar

I always talk to my students about the need to write for the joy of writing. I try to sort of disaggregate the acclaim…

— Kim Edwards

“Good writing demands self-discipline and constant learning”

— Cecil Murphey

I always tell my students, about the biggest baddest things in life you must try to write small and light, save the big writing…

— Pam Houston

“the act of writing will make you a better student, a better worker, a better friend, a better citizen, a better parent, a better…

— Roy Peter Clark

“Writing requires a prolong period of academic education supplemented by studiously scrutinizing society and its customs. Writers also analyze their own nature and physical…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

Bad writers are those who try to express their own feeble ideas in the language of good ones.

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

Writing is like breathing, it's possible to learn to do it well, but the point is to do it no matter what.

— Julia Cameron

I believe good writing can save bad art.

— Ryan North

“I once had a substitute teacher in my 4th grade class that was wonderful. He said learning was like throwing mud on a wall.…

— Michele Gwynn

Creative writing lessons can be very useful, just like music lessons can be useful. To say, as Hanif Kureishi did, that 99.9% of students…

— Matt Haig

“The world is a hellish place, and bad writing is destroying the quality of our suffering. It cheapens and degrades the human experience, when…

— Tom Waits

There are too many "creative writing" courses and seminars, in which young wirters are constantly being taught to rewrite the previous generation. They should…

— John Dos Passos