Creative Writer Quotes
- To note an artist's limitations is but to define his talent. A reporter can write equally well about everything that is presented to his view,… — Willa Cather
- There is no way of being a creative writer in America without being a loser. — Nelson Algren
- The creative writer is usually captive to his next book. — Fannie Hurst
- A strong experience in the present awakens in the creative writer a memory of an earlier experience (usually belonging to his childhood) from which there… — Sigmund Freud
- You know, I look to myself mainly as a creative writer all my life and a medical doctor. — Nawal El Saadawi
- The creative writer uses his life as well as being its victim; he can control, in his work, the self-presentation that in actuality is at… — John Updike
- For a creative writer possession of the 'truth' is less important than emotional sincerity. — George Orwell
- People don't really know themselves until they're 30. Like most people nowadays, I went to university, got a degree and wandered for a bit. I… — Wilbur Smith
- The creative writer does the same as the child at play; he creates a world of fantasy which he takes very seriously. — Sigmund Freud
- America is no place for an artist: to be an artist is to be a moral leper, an economic misfit, a social liability. A corn-fed… — Henry Miller
- For a creative writer possession of the ruth is less important than emotional sincerity. — George Orwell