Creative writing Quote by Matt Haig

Creative writing lessons can be very useful, just like music lessons can be useful. To say, as Hanif Kureishi did, that 99.9% of students…

— Matt Haig

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

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

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

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

There is a whole industry in America of people who want to write, and those who teach it. Even if the students don't end…

— Edmund White

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

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

I had never taken creative writing classes. Hadn't even considered it.

— Charles Frazier

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

I never attended a creative writing class in my life. I have a horror of them.

— Zadie Smith

Writers are very much undervalued in the creative process.

— Rachel Ward

Being a screenwriter is not enough for a full creative life.

— William Goldman