Courses Quote by John Dos Passos

You cannot teach creativity - how to become a good writer. But you can help a young writer discover within himself what kind of…

— Mario Vargas Llosa

“Young writers find out what kinds of writers they are by experiment. If they choose from the outset to practice exclusively a form of…

— John McPhee

There's a lot of young authors out there, and people do seem to forget: in order to write well, you do need to have…

— Richard K. Morgan

Young writers should be encouraged to write, and discouraged from thinking they are writers.

— Wallace Stegner

Normally, young writers have all the time in the world and they don't always use it well.

— Zadie Smith

I think that very often younger writers don't appreciate how much hard work is involved in writing. The part of writing that's magic is…

— Diane Ackerman

Talented people are finding that writing for young people is as demanding of high quality as writing for adults.

— Lloyd Alexander

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

— Laurie Calhoun

I suspect that authors who start their careers writing for an adult audience - and who eventually produce a young adult novel or two…

— Paul Di Filippo

Nothing needs to happen to a writer’s life after they are 20. By then they’ve experienced more than enough to last their creative life.

— Flannery O'Connor

I am always interested in why young people become writers, and from talking with many I have concluded that most do not want to…

— James A. Michener

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

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie