Advice-to-writers Quote by Steven Heighton

When the kids were young, they just wanted to be around us. We were units of comfort and support. As they get older, we…

— John Dickerson

“You can best write about your own experiences.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“Experience is the only subject worthwhile of study.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“Most agree that a useful definition of creative work is that it includes a combination of novelty and value. Creativity requires novelty because tried-and-true…

— Alice W. Flaherty

We pride ourselves at Natrona - I mean, pride {ironically] - on developing a noncompetitive community. That's very important. The values that can come…

— Anne Waldman

“The only legitimate basis of creative work lies in the courageous recognition of all the irreconcilable antagonisms that make our life so enigmatic, so…

— Joseph Conrad

I believe in creative work.

— Demian Bichir

“One thing about creative work is that it’s never done. In different words, every person we interviewed said that it was equally true that…

— Todd Henry

Creativity is not a solitary movement. That is its power. Whatever is touched by it, whoever hears it, sees it, senses it, knows it,…

— Clarissa Pinkola Estes

Let us guide our students over the road of discipline from materials, through function, to creative work.

— Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

“What we call creative work, Ought not to be called work at all because it isn't. I imagine that Thomas Edison never did a…

— Anonymous

If [people] place such things as friendship and family ties above their own productive work, yes, then they are immoral. Friendship, family life and…

— Ayn Rand