Creative Writing Quotes
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Creative Writing Quotes & Sayings
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I minored in creative writing in college, and I've played with the idea of doing something more hybrid, but comics are my first love.
— Gene Luen Yang
The best and only true history we have. Everyone interested in creative writing should know this book.
— Tony Ardizzone
To achieve lasting literature, fictional or factual, a writer needs perceptive vision, absorptive capacity, and creative strength.
— Lawrence Clark Powell
I told him I wanted to major in creative writing and sit around in yoga pants and do nothing but write books eat ice cream every day.
— Colleen Hoover
Does any (MFA) program really improve anybody, as much as simply identifying them? And, after identifying them, not ruining them?
— Chang-rae Lee
Your page stands against you and says to you that you are a thief.
— Marcus Valerius Martialis
Writing was my route to creative expression, and I needed to write about the things that interested me.
— Ashwin Sanghi
Anything creative requires a bit of acting,and filling in blanks with imagination.
— Christina Westover
Keep rechewing. Like a cow. Use all your creative stomachs.
— Elizabeth M. Lawrence
To keep your writing motoring along nicely, enthusiasm is the petrol.
— David John Griffin
Dreams are fuel for creation.
— Joseph Hunt
Every so often, it's time to make a change with a showrunner; you evaluate the creative and how the show is run, how the writing staff works.
— Robert Greenblatt
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
I enjoy writing the same way I enjoy doing standup. Part of the challenge is being creative and making it work no matter what the constraints.
— Greg Fitzsimmons
Creativity is the brain's invisible muscle -- that when used and excercised routinely -- becomes better and stronger.
— Ashley Ormon
You must make a clear distinction between your creative mode and your critical mode. The two are like water and oil, they do not mix.
— Gudjon Bergmann
Writing nonfiction means I tell people's stories for them, not because they're special but because we all are.
— Jo Deurbrouck
Teasing out the way the world might look through another's eyes is what makes the creative process so fascinating and enjoyable.
— Stephen L. Carter
Talent, and genius as well, is like a grain of pearl sand shifting about in the creative mind. A valued tormentor.
— Truman Capote
I majored in Creative Writing in college. Then I got over it.
— Donald E. McQuinn
Being a writer is not just about typing. It's also about surviving the rollercoaster of the creative journey.
— Joanna Penn
...in search of my creative muse while writing a novel.
— Atlas Brown
I'm not saying you can't do writing, just do some writing that you can build a career on. Creative writing isn't going to get you anywhere.
— Francesca Zappia
I went to school for creative writing in college, and I wound up about six hours short of my degree.
— Jason Isbell
No one should go into debt to study creative writing. It's simply not worth it. This is not medical school.
— Ann Patchett
Pittsburgh was even more vital, more creative, more hungry for culture than New York. Pittsburgh was the birthplace of my writing.
— Willa Cather
Creative writing programmes are not very necessary. They just exist so that people like us can make a living.
— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
I am basically analytical, not creative; my writing is simply a creative way of handling analysis.
— Philip K. Dick
Your experiences are the foundation for your story; your imagination takes it from there.
— J.R. Young
Being an author is to have a toe in the creative pool and a foot in the vat of commerce.
— Fennel Hudson
Do not let any record company disturb your creative flow. You are not writing for the record company. You're writing for the public.
— Grandmaster Flash
The phenomenon of university creative writing programs doesn't exist in France. The whole idea is regarded as a novelty, or an oddity.
— Marilyn Hacker
I mostly write short stories. They are best written in a continuous creative process. You have a feel of immediacy.
— Ruskin Bond
I'd like to find a creative way to write a book that incorporates every Depeche Mode song ever.
— David Crabb
Use the creative process - singing, writing, art, dance, whatever - to get to know yourself better.
— Catie Curtis
A piece of creative writing, like a day-dream, is a continuation of, and a substitute for, what was once the play of childhood.
— Sigmund Freud
Anxious, inexperienced writers obey rules. Rebellious, unschooled writers break rules. Artists master the form.
— Robert McKee
Create a character with an obsession, then follow.
— Ray Bradbury
Writing is like daydreaming through your fingers.
— Jenna Alatari
There are no "great" subjects for the creative writer; there are only the singular details of a single human life.
— Richard Selzer
I had just begun an M.A. in Creative Writing, and I had to write a novel, so I began writing a novel that later became 'A Life Apart.'
— Neel Mukherjee
Doing nothing can be as rewarding as doing something. And doing very little can be as productive, in a creative sense, as doing a lot.
— Fennel Hudson
Writers think with their soul and draft from their heart
— Lisa Fantino
Forget ideas, Mr. Author. What kind of pen do you use? — Stephen Fry
Turn up for work. Discipline allows creative freedom. No discipline equals no freedom.
— Jeanette Winterson
The trick to finding writing time is to make writing time in the life you've already got.
— Julia Cameron
I was an A student and I liked creative writing.
— Trisha Yearwood
Was the dividing line between life and fiction as hazy for other people as it was for a writer?
— Dean Koontz
The movementOf the body is
Where poetry
Begins — Clint Catalyst
It's neither and it's both. That's the perfect kind of art. Labels only detract from the artist's intention.
— Ted Dekker
You do not need to be writing or painting or sculpting in order to be creative. You must simply create.
— David Levithan
Style has always been in my mind the author's Self, the creative expression of that Self.
— Whit Burnett
I can act ... I do a little writing as well. And I'm good at typing. I'm a creative typist, actually.
— Chris Colfer
When the work is the best work, it's more like being a secretary than it is a creative person, you just sort of take the stuff down.
— Stephen King
Pencil. Paper. Forget the world.
— Shaun Hick
True alchemy lies in this formula: 'Your memory and your senses are but the nourishment of your creative impulse'.
— Arthur Rimbaud
All the elements of good writing depend on the writer's skill in choosing one word instead of another.
— Francine Prose
I believe the best creative writing lessons live in the specifics.
— Jeff VanderMeer
Creative writing and literacy go hand and hand.
— Rita Dove
I was an English major in college, took a ton of creative writing courses, and was a newspaper reporter for 10 years.
— Jennifer Weiner
Any writer who believes in the 'lucky creative accident' in writing is pushing elephants on roller skates up greased ramps.
— Leonard Bishop
All the things that live within you find their place, in character and story, once you tap into that other space that is the creative writing space.
— Francesca Gregorini
I write to believe in goodness.
— Red Haircrow
i writebecause
it is
the only way
i can
reach you. — Sanober Khan
When you write, you want to get rid of the world, do you not? Of coarse you do. When you're writing, you're creating your own worlds.
— Stephen King
I write whenever it suits me. During a creative period I write every day; a novel should not be interrupted.
— Francois Mauriac
The brain is like a muscle; books are the diet and writing is the workout.
— Stewart Stafford
Pain engraves a deeper memory.
— Anne Sexton
A creative writing class may be one of the last places you can go where your life still matters.
— Richard Hugo
