Creative Writing Quotes

116 Creative Writing quotes by 101 unique authors

• The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say. — Anais Nin
• The one thing emphasized in any creative writing course is 'write what you know,' and that automatically drives a wooden stake through the heart of… — Tom Robbins
• Creative writing and shooting are muscles that atrophy. But when you work them, you become a self-generator who can branch out. — Eli Roth
• And after about two years, I realized that creative writing was not going to help you ace those biological tests. So I switched over to… — Bob Schieffer
• I never attended a creative writing class in my life. I have a horror of them; most writers groups moonlight as support groups for the… — Zadie Smith
• A great writer reveals the truth even when he or she does not wish to. — Tom Bissell
• One must be drenched in words, literally soaked in them, to have the right ones form themselves into the proper pattern at the right moment. — Hart Crane
• If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you. — Oscar Wilde
• Here is a lesson in creative writing. First rule: Do not use semicolons. They are transvestite hermaphrodites representing absolutely nothing. All they do is show… — Kurt Vonnegut
• Writing is both mask and unveiling. — Elwyn Brooks White
• Start dating someone who is funny, someone who has what in high school you called a "really great sense of humor" and what now your… — Lorrie Moore
• I do not like to write - I like to have written. — Gloria Steinem
• When I used to teach creative writing, I would tell the students to make their characters want something right away. — Kurt Vonnegut
• You don't write a novel out of sheer pity any more than you blow a safe out of a vague longing to be rich. A… — Nelson Algren
• The best style is the style you don't notice. — W. Somerset Maugham
• A critic can only review the book he has read, not the one which the writer wrote. — Mignon McLaughlin
• Every great and original writer, in proportion as he is great and original, must himself create the taste by which he is to be relished. — William Wordsworth
• Creative Writing was not a form of psychotherapy, in ways both sublime and ridiculuous, it clearly was, precisely that. — A. S. Byatt
• The maker of a sentence launches out into the infinite and builds a road into Chaos and old Night, and is followed by those who… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
• The act of writing itself is much like the construction of a mirror made of words. Looking at certain illuminated corners of or cracks within… — Aberjhani

Who Wrote These Creative Writing Quotes

101 authors contributed a total of 116 Creative Writing Quotes, led by these top contributors:

• 5 Creative Writing Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
• 3 Creative Writing Quotes by Marilyn Hacker
• 3 Creative Writing Quotes by Kurt Vonnegut
• 3 Creative Writing Quotes by Ayn Rand
• 2 Creative Writing Quotes by Robert Morgan
• 2 Creative Writing Quotes by Rachel Cusk
• 2 Creative Writing Quotes by Orson Scott Card
• 2 Creative Writing Quotes by Jeff VanderMeer
• 2 Creative Writing Quotes by Elwyn Brooks White
• 1 Creative Writing Quote by Zadie Smith
• 1 Creative Writing Quote by William Wordsworth
• 1 Creative Writing Quote by William Ralph Inge
• 1 Creative Writing Quote by W. Somerset Maugham
• 1 Creative Writing Quote by Vikas Swarup
• 1 Creative Writing Quote by Ursula K. Le Guin
• 1 Creative Writing Quote by Unknown Author
• 1 Creative Writing Quote by Twyla Tharp
• 1 Creative Writing Quote by Truman Capote
• 1 Creative Writing Quote by Trisha Yearwood
• 1 Creative Writing Quote by Toni Morrison
• 1 Creative Writing Quote by Tom Robbins
• 1 Creative Writing Quote by Tom Clancy
• 1 Creative Writing Quote by Tom Bissell
• 1 Creative Writing Quote by Thomas Mann
• 1 Creative Writing Quote by Steve Blank