Bad idea Quote by Barry Hannah

I don't know much about creative writing programs. But they're not telling the truth if they don't teach, one, that writing is hard work,…

— Doris Lessing

I see creative-writing classes as some sort of AA meeting. It is more of a support group for people who write than an actual…

— Etgar Keret

Undergraduate writers seem to be, in a way, more open to letting themselves just write.

— David Means

Well, my background is journalism. I don't have any creative-writing experience except for one class I took as a sophomore in college.

— Dave Eggers

One of the unfortunate things about creative writing courses is that they make people impatient. People feel that they have prepared themselves and that…

— Robert Dessaix

I had never taken creative writing classes. Hadn't even considered it.

— Charles Frazier

To me there is no such thing as creative writing. It's either good writing, whatever the subject, or it's not creative.

— Erskine Caldwell

I was an A student and I liked creative writing.

— Trisha Yearwood

It's not a college degree that makes a writer. The great thing is to have a story to tell.

— Polly Adler

There is a whole industry in America of people who want to write, and those who teach it. Even if the students don't end…

— Edmund White

The formula for creative writing in high school or college is write what you know. And I said they don't know nothing. Imagine something.…

— Toni Morrison

I went to school for creative writing in college, and I wound up about six hours short of my degree.

— Jason Isbell