Creative writing Quote by Tom Bissell Download Open image “A great writer reveals the truth even when he or she does not wish to.” — Tom Bissell ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.8 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Creative writing Doe Great writers Truth Wish Writers Writing
“Anyone who claims that truth is stranger than fiction has never gazed into a writer's mind, or read my stories.” — Lucian Barnes Copy Share Image
“Truth is the aim of story. And though we must take into account the human author’s subjectivity and personal slant, the best authors are… — Sarah Arthur Copy Share Image
“There is this quality esteemed within every good writer. She knows…she knows that truth must be un-sheltered within every human transition phase or stable… — Dew Platt Copy Share Image
The truth, or success, of any writer's story lies partly in its specificity and its emotional honesty. — Gail Caldwell Copy Share Image
Novelists tell that piece of truth hidden at the bottom of every lie. — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
Fiction writers, at least in their braver moments, do desire the truth: to know it, speak it, serve it. But they go about it… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“a truth does not take too long to tell, only a fiction requires so much thought” — Tami Hoag Copy Share Image
A writer paradoxically seeks the truth and tells lies every step of the way. — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“why did i so passionately require the truth? because all great fiction is true” — Kinky Friedman Copy Share Image
To create anything — whether a short story or a magazine profile or a film or a sitcom — is to believe, if only… — Tom Bissell Copy Share Image
“Final Fantasy VII awoke American gaming to the possibilities of narrative dynamism and the importance of relatively developed characters—no small inspiration to take from… — Tom Bissell Copy Share Image
“You have agency, yes, but what of it? It is just a game. But when a game does this well, you lose track of… — Tom Bissell Copy Share Image
“There are not many mediums whose Dantes and Homers one can ring up and talk to. With games, one can.” — Tom Bissell Copy Share Image
“The world, finally, is no longer large, and to ignore it likely requires more effort than to simply take notice.” — Tom Bissell Copy Share Image
“This is one of the most suspect things about the game form: A game with an involving story and poor gameplay cannot be considered… — Tom Bissell Copy Share Image
We are no longer worried that children are missing school because of video games, though. We are worried that they are murdering their classmates… — Tom Bissell Copy Share Image
To create anything… is to believe, if only momentarily, you are capable of magic. — Tom Bissell Copy Share Image
Charyn, like Nabokov, is that most fiendish sort of writer-so seductive as to beg imitation, so singular as to make imitation impossible. — Tom Bissell Copy Share Image
“Hocking was slender in the way that writers and musicians are sometimes slender: not out of any desire or design but rather because his… — Tom Bissell Copy Share Image
“Games such as Mass Effect allow the gamer a freedom of decision that can be evilly enlivening or nobly self-congratulating, but these games become… — Tom Bissell Copy Share Image
“And so, my beloved Kermit, my dear little Hussein, at the moment America changed forever, your father was wandering an ICBM-denuded watseland, nervously monitoring… — Tom Bissell Copy Share Image
“There is then creative reading as well as creative writing. When the mind is braced by labor and invention, the page of whatever book… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Take care of your costume and your confidence will take care of itself.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
I've always written. When I was in school, the only teacher who ever liked me was my creative writing teacher. I used to enter… — Justin Townes Earle Copy Share Image
When I was at UCLA, a professor there encouraged me to write, and so I looked into specializing in creative writing in the English… — Randall Park Copy Share Image
A creative writing workshop will contain students whose ambitions and abilities, whose conceptions of literature itself, are so diverse that what they have in… — Rachel Cusk Copy Share Image
“The smell of the sweat is not sweet, but the fruit of the sweat is very sweet.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
Start dating someone who is funny, someone who has what in high school you called a "really great sense of humor" and what now… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
“Creative writer has artistic sensibility. He observes the world like any common men. But his vision observes the world quite differently. He can perceive… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
I really think that if there's any one enemy to human creativity, especially creative writing, it's self-consciousness. — Andre Dubus Copy Share Image
“We are taken through the pursuit of the American dream, the establishment of the American family, and a smattering of suspense and intrigue.” — Nikita Allgire Copy Share Image
“Because at night when others are sleeping, I drown myself in poetry.” — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
