Believe Quote by Matt Haig

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

Many writers can't make a living. So to be able to teach how to write is valuable to them. But I don't really know…

— Chinua Achebe

I certainly wasn't born with creative writing. Maybe there's a certain amount of learning and then it's up to the person. I think in…

— Markus Zusak

I know people who've passed every creative writing course under the sun and who are more analytically intelligent and far better-read than I, but…

— Suhayl Saadi

When I read students’ attempts at creative writing it is obvious immediately that most of them have not read much or widely. The aspiring…

— Julius Lester

Good writing of course requires talent, and no one can teach you to have talent.

— Peter Carey

I think some aspects of writing can be taught. Obviously, you can't teach vision or talent. But you can help with comfort.

— Toni Morrison

To say that creative writing courses are all useless is almost as silly as saying all editors are useless. Writers of all levels can…

— Matt Haig

Like the child, the creative writing student is posited as a centre of vulnerable creativity, needful of attention and authority.

— Rachel Cusk

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

— Jeff VanderMeer

Writing requires a great deal of skill, just like painting does. People don't want to learn those skills.

— John Milius

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