Absolute Quote by Paul Engle

I took a couple of creative writing classes with Joyce Carol Oates at Princeton University, and in my senior year there, I took a…

— Mohsin Hamid

Some of the things I liked in my years as a student in workshops: the occasional in-class prompt; discussions about what it means to…

— Mary J. Miller

We were given clear concrete tools. The course did a great job demystifying the art of fiction writing and fostering confidence. The instructor brought…

— Miguel Ferrer

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

— Zadie Smith

I did a course in creative writing.

— Antara Mali

Part of my learning curve as a novice screenwriter was peeling back the layers and getting to the core of the story. I was…

— Aurora Guerrero

I came to writing because I joined the North Clare Writers' Workshop, which met every week at Ennistymon Library.

— Kate Thompson

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

I love the students - they are remarkable, inspiring people. I would miss teaching if I stopped doing it. The kind of work I…

— Donald Margulies

My students - all adults - bring a lot of writing skill to the first class, and they and I get better as the…

— James Thayer

At DePauw, I was teaching writing and fiction. The things I wanted to teach, more than anything else, were form and theory of the…

— Nic Pizzolatto

Writers need to learn their trade, and how to negotiate the increasingly difficult marketplace. The trade can be taught and learned just as the…

— Ursula K. Le Guin