Clients Quote by Toni Morrison

The formula for creative writing in high school or college is write what you know.

— Toni Morrison

The one thing emphasized in any creative writing course is 'write what you know,' and that automatically drives a wooden stake through the heart…

— Tom Robbins

I think you have to learn for yourself how to write. I'm slightly mystified by creative writing courses - God love them - because…

— Kate Atkinson

The way to start writing isn't by writing at all. But by living. It isn't about creating something from thin air, but about documenting…

— Yasmin Ahmad

Writing is something you'll never learn in any university or at any school. It's something that is within you, and if it isn't there,…

— Harper Lee

I entered the literary world, really, from outside. My entire background has been in sciences; I was a biology major in college, then went…

— Khaled Hosseini

“...why is it that, in creative writing courses today, the very first thing we teach students is write what you know? Perhaps that's not…

— Elif Shafak

To me there is no such thing as creative writing. It's either good writing, whatever the subject, or it's not creative.

— Erskine Caldwell

Writing is a process of discovery of what you really do know. You can't limit yourself in advance to what you know, because you…

— Walter Murch

Writing is nearly always a matter of finding whatever your brain needs to trick it into being creative, and in my case, a tiny…

— Emma Donoghue

I was an A student and I liked creative writing.

— Trisha Yearwood

People don't really know themselves until they're 30. Like most people nowadays, I went to university, got a degree and wandered for a bit.…

— Wilbur Smith