Creative writing Quote by John Gardner

An understandable hunger for potential clients tempts many [career counseling therapists] to overpromise, like creative writing teachers who, out of greed or sentimentality, sometimes…

— Alain de Botton

I've had great writing teachers and mentors and great success with my first book.

— Uzodinma Iweala

We aren't prescribing anything. We're not claiming to be the experts. We aren't advocating for or against any program. We are going to create…

— Charles Best

We are often raised as dependents then given over to teachers. It's experience and exploration that can transform us and lead to mastery.

— Robert Greene

“A sex worker deserves a billion times more respect, than the mystical fraudsters of the society, such as astrologers, psychics and tarot card readers.”

— Abhijit Naskar

Writing pornography is deadly, nothing duller. I mean a toll-taker has a more exciting life than a pornographer.

— Fran Lebowitz

I think that I am a pornographer, meaning that I make movies based on what excites me and what I would like to see.

— Nicolas Winding Refn

“The pornographer? He is concerned with what the characters do, while the artist, the artist is concerned with who the characters are.”

— Steve Erickson

I've been writing stories since I was 12. 'Writer's Digest' was one of my writing teachers, actually.

— Laurell K. Hamilton

“Had Dr. Seuss been a slightly insane pornographer, he might have written a book like this.--reviewing Nicholson Baker's House of Holes”

— Tom Bissell

I'm in between an installation artist, video artist and photographer. And when you work with nude bodies, you're immediately called a pornographer or a…

— Spencer Tunick

After a year or two of keeping my head down and trying to pass myself off as a normal person, I made contact with…

— Margaret Atwood