Courses Quote by Robert Dessaix

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

In India, writers are underpaid. Universities should start new courses to create more opportunities for them.

— Pankaj Kapur

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

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

It's not a college degree that makes a writer. The great thing is to have a story to tell.

— Polly Adler

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

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

The idea that it is necessary to go to a university in order to become a successful writer . . . is one of…

— Vera Brittain

I don't really believe in a creative-writing major as an undergraduate. It's a bad idea, terrible. I've met creative-writing majors from other places and…

— Barry Hannah

The phenomenon of university creative writing programs doesn't exist in France. The whole idea is regarded as a novelty, or an oddity.

— Marilyn Hacker

“Producing works of art doesn't often count as appropriate intellectual work in an arts department: yet the equivalent in a science department, doing physics…

— Ken Robinson

A writer should get as much education as possible, but just going to school is not enough; if it were, all owners of doctorates…

— Gwendolyn Brooks

Pace is crucial. Fine writing isn't enough. Writing students can be great at producing a single page of well-crafted prose; what they sometimes lack…

— Rose Tremain