"If you want to get rich from writing,……" — Don Marquis
"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 themselves."
More Creative Writing Quotes
- Writing comes more easily if you have something to say. — Sholem Asch
- Creative writing programmes are not very necessary. They just exist so that people like us can make a living. — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- Writing has laws of perspective, of light and shade just as painting does, or music. If you are born knowing… — Truman Capote
- Metaphors have a way of holding the most truth in the least space. — Orson Scott Card
- The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense. — Tom Clancy
- A creative writing class may be one of the last places you can go where your life still matters. — Richard Hugo
- Creativity is a habit, and the best creativity is a result of good work habits. That's it in a nutshell… — Twyla Tharp
- I am an English major in school with an emphasis in creative writing. I think hearing Maya Angelou speak at… — Fred Savage
- Metaphors are not user-friendly. They're difficult to find and difficult to use well. Unfortunately, metaphors are a mainstay of good… — Pat Pattison
- We have always learned about life by dramatising our questions. — Unknown Author
- If you can't play all the instruments in the orchestra of story, no matter what music may be in your… — Robert McKee
- The novelist's ambition is not to do something better than his predecessors but to see what they did not see,… — Milan Kundera