Creative writing Quote by Ann Patchett

“No one should go into debt to study creative writing. It”

— Ann Patchett

“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 to get…

— Francesca Zappia

Medicine has an immediate impact, the ability to do good. Writing is such a solitary activity.

— Uzodinma Iweala

“I majored in Creative Writing in college. Then I got over it.”

— Donald E. McQuinn

“There should be more to writing than entertaining an already-brain-dead society and making money. If not,then you miss the point of writing.”

— Carol Morgan

“True creativity in medicine doesn't take place within disciplines so much as it does at the boundaries between disciplines.”

— Toby Cosgrove

“no writing is a waste of time--no creative work where the feelings, the imagination, the intelligence must work.”

— Brenda Ueland

Writing isn’t a career choice. It’s self-medication that over time precipitates the madness it was meant to ward off.

— Alain de Botton

“However, just like any line of work, writing is a negotiation, and creative control is as elusive as financial stability. I discovered that writing…

— Alice Driver

“Writing is a bittersweet addiction. The more it drains you; the more replenished you feel, and you crave it even more.”

— Anthea Syrokou

“Writing is an occupation in which you have to keep proving your talent to people who have none.”

— Jules Renard 1890

“As writing is one of the desperate professions, it has universal appeal, especially for those not engaged in it.”

— WH Auden