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To achieve lasting literature, fictional or factual, a writer needs perceptive vision, absorptive capacity, and creative strength. — Lawrence Clark Powell

Becoming a writer means being creative enough to find the time and the place in your life for writing. — Heather Sellers

Before the day my grandmother shared her treasured letters with me, I honestly wasn't much of a fiction reader, let alone creative writer. — Kristina McMorris

I write to understand what I know. — Kamand Kojouri

To be the kind of writer you want to be, you must first be the kind of thinker you want to be. — Ayn Rand

You cannot grow If you are not reading. — Andrea L'Artiste

Nothing needs to happen to a writer's life after they are 20. By then they've experienced more than enough to last their creative life. — Flannery O'Connor

Writers do not have the privilege of sleep. There is always a story coming alive in their heads, constantly composing. Whether they choose it or not. — Coco J. Ginger

There is no way of being a creative writer in America without being a loser. — Nelson Algren

Writing nonfiction means I tell people's stories for them, not because they're special but because we all are. — Jo Deurbrouck

The best thing about a being a writer is the creative process. I often describe it as a beautiful headache that I wouldn't change for anything. — Nicole Huggins

Writers fly with imaginary wings. — Melody Robinette

Some actors, I think, want to feel that they are as creative as the writer. And the answer is, frankly, they're not. — John Cleese

The creative writer is usually captive to his next book. — Fannie Hurst

When I went to college I took a creative writing class and decided in a week to be a writer. — David Guterson

I'm an actor. I'm just a creative person. I figure if I wasn't a good writer, I'd take to renovating homes ... not renovating ... decorating homes. — Andrea Gabriel

All you have to do is put one word after another, and remember how great it feels to be a writer. — Stephanie Lennox

Reading is the creative center of a writer's life. - — Stephen King

My imagination was running amok again. Twice in one night. This never happens when I'm sitting in front of a typewriter. — Gary Reilly

As a writer, I marinate, speculate, and hibernate. — Trisha Sugarek

I think every creative impulse that a working writer, or artist of any sort has, comes out of that dark old country where dreams come from. — Anne Rivers Siddons

We need to remember that we are all created creative and can invent new scenarios as frequently as they are needed. — Maya Angelou

I have thought for many years that the audience any creative writer imagines has a great effect on what gets written. — Pattiann Rogers

It took me a long time to even dare to envision myself as a writer. I was very uncertain and hesitant and afraid to pursue a creative life. — Jhumpa Lahiri

The creative writer does the same as the child at play; he creates a world of fantasy which he takes very seriously. — Sigmund Freud

A creative writer is one for whom writing is a problem. — Roland Barthes

Because when I dream, I feel no fear,
And when I am fearless, I am my most creative self. — Nikki Rowe

Being an author is to have a toe in the creative pool and a foot in the vat of commerce. — Fennel Hudson

You know, I look to myself mainly as a creative writer all my life and a medical doctor. — Nawal El Saadawi

All the elements of good writing depend on the writer's skill in choosing one word instead of another. — Francine Prose

What surer sign is there that the creative aquifers are dry than a writer creating a writer-character? — David Mitchell

The hardest period for a writer is the period in-between writing. That's when you can go crazy if you don't allow the creative juices to flow. — Ice Cube

A good creative-writing teacher can save a good writer a lot of time. — Richard Hugo

Was the dividing line between life and fiction as hazy for other people as it was for a writer? — Dean Koontz

For a creative writer possession of the "truth" is less important than emotional sincerity. — George Orwell

To forget oneself-to lose oneself in the music, in the moment- that kind of absorption seems to be at the heart of every creative endeavor. — Dani Shapiro

In television, the writer-creator-showrunner is embraced as the creative mind. — Jim Rash

I write whenever it suits me. During a creative period I write every day; a novel should not be interrupted. — Francois Mauriac

Any writer who believes in the 'lucky creative accident' in writing is pushing elephants on roller skates up greased ramps. — Leonard Bishop

There is no such thing as an 'unemployed writer', only an unemployed mind — Kevin Cowdall

I consider myself West African, among other cultural identities, and a writer, among other creative ones. — Taiye Selasi

There are no "great" subjects for the creative writer; there are only the singular details of a single human life. — Richard Selzer

A hammer made of deadlines is the surest tool for crushing writer's block. — Ryan Lilly

Artie is a singer, and I'm a writer and player and a singer. We didn't work together on a creative level and prepare the songs. I did that. — Paul Simon

I gradually realized that I was seeing another example of creative ebb, another step by another art on the road that may indeed end in extinction. — Stephen King

In television, the 60-minute series, 'The Wire' and 'Mad Men' and so on, the writer is the primary creative artist. — Salman Rushdie

Being a writer is not just about typing. It's also about surviving the rollercoaster of the creative journey. — Joanna Penn

I'm not a very creative person, you know? I'm not really an art person. I'm not a great reader or writer or artist or musician. — Tom Brady

I worked as a writer, lead designer, and creative director in the game industry. — Margaret Stohl

If you become a creative writer with the idea that you are going to make a whole lot of money, then maybe this isn't the best choice for you. — Tom Drury