Books Quote by Marilyn Hacker

Poetry is something that happens in universities, in creative writing programs or in English departments.

— Mark Strand

A creative writing workshop will contain students whose ambitions and abilities, whose conceptions of literature itself, are so diverse that what they have in…

— Rachel Cusk

One of the unfortunate things about creative writing courses is that they make people impatient. People feel that they have prepared themselves and that…

— Robert Dessaix

There is creative reading as well as creative writing.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is then creative reading as well as creative writing

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I see creative-writing classes as some sort of AA meeting. It is more of a support group for people who write than an actual…

— Etgar Keret

Literature speaks the language of the imagination, and the study of literature is supposed to train and improve the imagination.

— Northrop Frye

The formula for creative writing in high school or college is write what you know.

— Toni Morrison

I majored in English with a specialization in creative writing along with Asian American Studies.

— Randall Park

The professionalization of poetry, or the balkanization, has come out of the fact that when you apply to most creative writing programs, you have…

— Robert Hass

The phenomenon of university creative writing programs doesn't exist in France. The whole idea is regarded as a novelty, or an oddity.

— Marilyn Hacker

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