Copying Quote by Michael Morpurgo

Writing is nearly always a matter of finding whatever your brain needs to trick it into being creative, and in my case, a tiny…

— Emma Donoghue

No, I have to really focus, especially when I'm writing because I wanna be good at it

— Tom Araya

I'm dependent on writing for a living, so really it's to my advantage to understand how the creative process works. One of the problems…

— Alan Moore

I'm not a wildly gifted person; I don't play an instrument or speak another language or have great accomplishments in another field, as many…

— Jennifer Egan

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

There is then creative reading as well as creative writing

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

When I try to concentrate, I really enjoy writing.

— Sophie Winkleman

I've never been a very prolific person, so when creativity flows, it flows. I find myself scribbling on little notepads and pieces of loose…

— Kurt Cobain

Studying creativity is not an elite distraction, but provides one of the most exciting models for living.

— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

In school, writing was the only thing that really came naturally to me, but it wasn't until college that I realized that I could…

— Sarah Dessen

I used to write stories. Handwriting stories in school were a big deal for me. That's kind of what I did.

— Shawn Mendes

On top of whatever else I'm doing, I'm usually teaching some form of composition. The benefit of this is I get to read across…

— Gregory Pardlo