Creative writing Quote by Edward Hirsch

When I taught at the University of Houston in the Creative Writing program we required the poets to take workshops in fiction writing and…

— Edward Hirsch

I think poets should work in the non-literary, non-academic world, get to know more than a workshop or a university.

— Adrienne Rich

A creative writing workshop will contain students whose ambitions and abilities, whose conceptions of literature itself, are so diverse that what they have in…

— Rachel Cusk

I worked privately, and sometimes I feel that might be better for poets than the kind of social workshop gathering. My school was the…

— Mary Oliver

I just think that the world of workshops - I've written a poem that is a parody of workshop talk, I've written a poem…

— Billy Collins

I didn't write poems for a number of years after graduate school because the criticisms of other students in the workshops wouldn't quiet down…

— Kevin Keck

I did not go to any creative writing workshop; I did not major in literature. If I can write, anyone can write. All it…

— Vikas Swarup

Writers need to learn their trade, and how to negotiate the increasingly difficult marketplace. The trade can be taught and learned just as the…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

I think poetry workshops get a bad rap. I'm sure some aren't good, but in general, I like the format. I try and keep…

— Elaine Equi

I did a course in creative writing.

— Antara Mali

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

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

I'm not a poet, but I was in the poetry program. And I'm also not much of a nonfiction writer, at least not in…

— John D'Agata