Creative Writing Quotes

116 Creative Writing quotes by 101 unique authors

• I'm often asked how I write books, but I don't think my approach is suitable for everyone. If I walked into a creative writing class,… — Ian Rankin
• I was an A student and I liked creative writing. — Trisha Yearwood
• 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
• 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
• I got out of college and I went to get my master's in creative writing at San Francisco State. I was working as an actor… — Peter Coyote
• I had never taken creative writing classes. Hadn't even considered it. — Charles Frazier
• When I went to college I took a creative writing class and decided in a week to be a writer. — David Guterson
• I've always written. When I was in school, the only teacher who ever liked me was my creative writing teacher. I used to enter poetry… — Justin Townes Earle
• I remember telling my creative writing teacher that you never want to have a journal, because if you lose it, then someone's going to know… — Garrett Hedlund
• I wonder what it means about American literary culture and its transmission when I consider the number of American poets who earn their living teaching… — Marilyn Hacker
• The phenomenon of university creative writing programs doesn't exist in France. The whole idea is regarded as a novelty, or an oddity. — Marilyn Hacker
• 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 course… — Etgar Keret
• I didn't do a masters in creative writing until I was 26, which is quite old, and then I found myself in New York and… — Rachel Kushner
• Now that I'm staring down the barrel of the last act of my life, I'm less excited about control and solo effort, and I resent… — David Knopfler
• I was a journalism major, and I would take creative writing classes as part of that, but I would also look for opportunities to write… — George R. R. Martin
• Back in the days when American billboard advertising was in flower [said Hemingway], there were two slogans that I always rated above all others: the… — A. E. Hotchner
• There are too many "creative writing" courses and seminars, in which young wirters are constantly being taught to rewrite the previous generation. They should be… — John Dos Passos
• The best visual book I can think of is Lynda Barry's What It Is, but although I refer to it all the time it's not… — Jeff VanderMeer
• I believe the best creative writing lessons live in the specifics. — Jeff VanderMeer
• The most beautiful things are those that madness prompts and reason writes. — Andre Gide

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