Creative Quote by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

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

There is creative reading as well as creative writing.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

“Is 'creative writing program' oxymoronic? How could you teach someone to make something new?”

— Laurie Calhoun

There are too many "creative writing" courses and seminars, in which young wirters are constantly being taught to rewrite the previous generation. They should…

— John Dos Passos

The world needs writers. We will always be necessary. There are few professions that can claim that distinction.

— Rod McKuen

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

To say that creative writing courses are all useless is almost as silly as saying all editors are useless. Writers of all levels can…

— Matt Haig

Writing is nearly always a matter of finding whatever your brain needs to trick it into being creative, and in my case, a tiny…

— Emma Donoghue

I know people who've passed every creative writing course under the sun and who are more analytically intelligent and far better-read than I, but…

— Suhayl Saadi

Without writers, none of the entertainment would exist. It starts with writers. Writers are the most important piece of the entire puzzle.

— Hill Harper

I know writers for whom the act of writing is a necessary chore. They suffer to write great work. I am very lucky that…

— Denise Duhamel