Approach Quote by Kate Zambreno

I haven't taught creative writing all that much (my CW teaching consists of a few summer workshops for elementary school children and an eight-week…

— Mary J. Miller

I was trained mainly as a short story writer and that's how I started writing, but I've also become very interested in non-fiction, just…

— David Foster Wallace

When I began to be published, people got the idea that I should 'teach writing,' which I have no idea how to do and…

— Anne Carson

I have no formal training as a writer at all, not even a single English class in college. However, my adult books are all…

— Scott Westerfeld

Well, my background is journalism. I don't have any creative-writing experience except for one class I took as a sophomore in college.

— Dave Eggers

I love to write. I write everything across the board - kids' stories and novels and scripts. I actually would like to give that…

— Evangeline Lilly

What you create when you're teaching fiction writing is a kind of literary salon, not a social club or a mutual admiration society, not…

— John Dufresne

I got an MFA in creative non-fiction writing at the University of Montana.

— Steven Rinella

I don't have personal experience and knowledge about anything but theater. I've been tutored very well on the subject, but ultimately I'm going back…

— Aaron Sorkin

I make non-fiction partly because I'm not that good of a writer. My talent, if I have any, is in balancing, capturing and directing…

— Robert Greene

My advice is to write about what you are interested in. If you read science fiction and fantasy, then write in that genre. If…

— Michael Scott

I was an English major in college, I went to a creative-writing program, and all my life, I really read and thought about fiction…

— Tom Perrotta