Attention Quote by Rachel Cusk

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

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

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

Bad writing as a conscious goal is liberating for students: They are freed to be creative in a new and different way.

— Amitava Kumar

In fact, the very phrase "teaching creative writing" sounds to me oxymoronic. How can you teach someone to be creative?

— Yuriy Tarnawsky

“You cannot teach creativity—how to become a good writer. But you can help a young writer discover within himself what kind of writer he…

— Mario Vargas Llosa

Creative powers can just as easily turn out to be destructive. It rests solely with the moral personality whether they apply themselves to good…

— Carl Jung

“Children and adolescents, being relatively new to life, are naturally creative because they haven't been brainwashed, so to speak, by the conventional attitudes of…

— Thomas Armstrong

A good creative-writing teacher can save a good writer a lot of time.

— Richard Hugo

“Creativity is as important now in education as literacy and we should treat it with the same status.”

— Sir Ken Robinson

“If you want to be creative, stay in part a child, with the creativity and invention that characterizes children before they are deformed by…

— Piaget

The creative writer does the same as the child at play; he creates a world of fantasy which he takes very seriously.

— Sigmund Freud