"Writing is no trouble: you just jot down……" — Stephen Leacock

More Creative Writing Quotes

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• Writing comes more easily if you have something to say. — Sholem Asch
• Creative writing programmes are not very necessary. They just exist so that people like us can make a living. — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
• Writing has laws of perspective, of light and shade just as painting does, or music. If you are born knowing… — Truman Capote
• Metaphors have a way of holding the most truth in the least space. — Orson Scott Card
• The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense. — Tom Clancy
• A creative writing class may be one of the last places you can go where your life still matters. — Richard Hugo
• Creativity is a habit, and the best creativity is a result of good work habits. That's it in a nutshell… — Twyla Tharp
• I am an English major in school with an emphasis in creative writing. I think hearing Maya Angelou speak at… — Fred Savage
• Metaphors are not user-friendly. They're difficult to find and difficult to use well. Unfortunately, metaphors are a mainstay of good… — Pat Pattison
• We have always learned about life by dramatising our questions. — Unknown Author
• If you can't play all the instruments in the orchestra of story, no matter what music may be in your… — Robert McKee
• The novelist's ambition is not to do something better than his predecessors but to see what they did not see,… — Milan Kundera

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