Beautiful Quote by Howard Nemerov

I read about writers' lives with the fascination of one slowing down to get a good look at an automobile accident.

— Kaye Gibbons

Some of the best things that have happened in my stories have happened seemingly of their own accord. The writer becomes a listener, just…

— Will Hobbs

In every successful still photographic project that I have completed, there has always been a turning point in the story where I felt that…

— Mary Ellen Mark

A lot of times students will come up to me and say, "Well, I can't write because I don't know what I think about…

— Alison Hawthorne Deming

“Teachers say if you write a story you must never name what you’re trying to write. Just do it. When it’s over you’ll know…

— Ray Bradbury

I was once doing a question and answer period with the novelist Jane Smiley in a bookstore and someone asked us what our processes…

— Edward Hirsch

You are at some point exposed to a wonderful story, and you really want to know what happens next, so you learn to read…

— Diana Gabaldon

“Most creative-writing teachers have had the experience of occasionally helping to produce, by accident, a pornographer.”

— John Gardner

Open your mind to new experiences, particularly to the study of other people. Nothing that happens to a writer – however happy, however tragic…

— Anonymous

“I went to Cambridge University. I took a number of baths - and a degree in English. I worried a lot about girls and…

— Douglas Adams

“In my classes, we read great fiction obsessively, and then attempt to see how a writer managed to affect us. We try to understand…

— Dean Bakopoulos

I write from a personal perspective, but sometimes seeing something in the street like that will spark something that reminds me of my own…

— Arlo Parks