Creative Writing Quotes

116 Creative Writing quotes by 101 unique authors

• Like the child, the creative writing student is posited as a centre of vulnerable creativity, needful of attention and authority. — Rachel Cusk
• A creative writing workshop will contain students whose ambitions and abilities, whose conceptions of literature itself, are so diverse that what they have in common… — Rachel Cusk
• Writers are not just people who sit down and write. They hazard themselves. Every time you compose a book your composition of yourself is at… — E L Doctorow
• There is creative reading as well as creative writing. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Some of my educated Filipino friends were aspiring poets, but their aspirations were all in the direction of the United States. They had no desire… — James Fenton
• I took a couple of creative writing classes with Joyce Carol Oates at Princeton University, and in my senior year there, I took a long… — Mohsin Hamid
• Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands… — Nathaniel Hawthorne
• Literature flourishes best when it is half a trade and half an art. — William Ralph Inge
• The secret truth of 'Celebrity Apprentice' is that it isn't very hard... 'Celebrity Apprentice' is easy like junior high is easy. All the arithmetic, the… — Penn Jillette
• A man will turn over half a library to make one book. — Samuel Johnson
• Being a writer is like having homework every night for the rest of your life. — Lawrence Kasdan
• Writing is no trouble: you just jot down ideas as they occur to you. The jotting is simplicity itself - it is the occurring which… — Stephen Leacock
• 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, and,… — Doris Lessing
• I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts. — John Locke
• A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people. — Thomas Mann
• If you want to get rich from writing, write the sort of thing that's read by persons who move their lips when they're reading to… — Don Marquis
• I'm not a very good writer, but I'm an excellent rewriter. — James A. Michener
• I don't think the creative writing industry has helped American poetry. — Robert Morgan
• I don't think American poetry has gotten any better in the past 35 years. Oddly enough, creative writing programs seem to have been good for… — Robert Morgan
• If there's a book you really want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it. — Toni Morrison

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