Creative Quote by Doris Lessing

Creative writing programmes are not very necessary. They just exist so that people like us can make a living.

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

A creative writing program is only as good as its teachers, and I was fortunate in having two great writers as mentors.

— Jay McInerney

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

— Laurie Calhoun

I don't really believe in a creative-writing major as an undergraduate. It's a bad idea, terrible. I've met creative-writing majors from other places and…

— Barry Hannah

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…

— Etgar Keret

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

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

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

I certainly wasn't born with creative writing. Maybe there's a certain amount of learning and then it's up to the person. I think in…

— Markus Zusak

Creative writing lessons can be very useful, just like music lessons can be useful. To say, as Hanif Kureishi did, that 99.9% of students…

— Matt Haig

There is a whole industry in America of people who want to write, and those who teach it. Even if the students don't end…

— Edmund White

I was an A student and I liked creative writing.

— Trisha Yearwood