Creative writing Quote by Laurie Calhoun

In fact, the very phrase "teaching creative writing" sounds to me oxymoronic. How can you teach someone to be creative?

— Yuriy Tarnawsky

I don't know much about creative writing programs. But they're not telling the truth if they don't teach, one, that writing is hard work,…

— Doris Lessing

To me there is no such thing as creative writing. It's either good writing, whatever the subject, or it's not creative.

— Erskine Caldwell

There are too many "creative writing" courses and seminars, in which young wirters are constantly being taught to rewrite the previous generation. They should…

— John Dos Passos

How can you teach someone to be creative? You have to create yourself.

— Yuriy Tarnawsky

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

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

People who earn the label "creative" are really just people who come up with more combinations of ideas, find interesting ones faster, and are…

— Guy Kawasaki

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

Creativity is the new literacy

— Chase Jarvis

We are all born creative. We just got it educated out of us.

— Tham Khai Meng

I believe the best creative writing lessons live in the specifics.

— Jeff VanderMeer

I was an A student and I liked creative writing.

— Trisha Yearwood