Creative writing Quote by Stephen Kuusisto

At the beginning of their careers many writers have a need to overwrite. They choose carefully turned-out phrases; they want to impress their readers…

— Jorge Luis Borges

There is something unwholesome and destructive about the entire writing process.

— Joy Williams

“no writing is a waste of time--no creative work where the feelings, the imagination, the intelligence must work.”

— Brenda Ueland

“People approach writers, assuming we pull a perfect text out of our nose each time (well spelled). Spelling is the least of it.”

— Sara Levine

Few people realize how badly they write. Nobody has shown them how much excess or murkiness has crept into their style.

— William Zinsser

“Modern writing at its worst does not consist in picking out words for the sake of their meaning and inventing images in order to…

— George Orwell

“I love how writing does so much; it can break down complex subjects to their essence, paint virtual pictures, entertain and make us smile,…

— Barbara Roy

The more stringent the rules and the more limiting they are, the more the poet and writer is forced to resort to special techniques…

— Simin Behbahani

“Writing is like sculpturing words out of a block of imagination. Sentences chisel the story, then characters make it their own.”

— Federico Chini

No blur of inexactness, no cloud of vagueness, is allowable in good writing; from the first seeing to the last putting down, there must…

— Eudora Welty

Writers are articulate. Artists find it more difficult.

— Anthony Browne

It is only through the confining act of writing that the immensity of the nonwritten becomes legible

— Italo Calvino