Creative Quote by Marilyn Hacker

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

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

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Creative people do not belong in the university because the process is antithetical to the analytical process so necessary for proper scholarship.

— Rita Mae Brown

Given the devaluation of literature and of the study of foreign languages per se in the United States, as well as the preponderance of…

— Marilyn Hacker

France is an idea, not a territory. They pay more attention to intellectuals here; they give artists and writers the feeling they're valued.

— Theodore Zeldin

In my experience at least, the large public universities do not fall behind in fostering creativity and independence; often the contrary.

— Noam Chomsky

I think liberal art faculties at major universities have views that are not very sound, at least on public policy issues - they may…

— Charlie Munger

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

I don't really believe in a creative-writing major as an undergraduate. It's a bad idea, terrible. I've met creative-writing majors from other places and…

— Barry Hannah

Universities are in a position where they can think very creatively.

— Derek Bok

The formula for creative writing in high school or college is write what you know. And I said they don't know nothing. Imagine something.…

— Toni Morrison

I worry that people think you have to go to a university to be a good writer, which is categorically untrue. I don't think…

— Samantha Shannon