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By what he chooses to present and by how he presents it, any author expresses his fundamental, metaphysical values. — Ayn Rand

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

I've been singing since I was two. Music was my first passion and I love writing, singing, creating and being creative. — Jojo

Your page stands against you and says to you that you are a thief. — Marcus Valerius Martialis

It is kind of ridiculous that a poet is expected to live in the real world. — Sanober Khan

Writing was my route to creative expression, and I needed to write about the things that interested me. — Ashwin Sanghi

I took my first creative writing class when I was 24, then went onto to get a graduate degree in poetry. I've sort of never looked back from there. — Paula McLain

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

Unless you have tested the assumptions in your business model first, outside the building, your business plan is just creative writing. — Steve Blank

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

It's my wish that I can help creative people think of new ways to be creative - to get more joy and understanding from their own unique processes. — Robert Genn

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

He's like a cesspool in the midst of my creative writing oasis. — Sandy Hall

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

The creative mind is the playful mind. Philosophy is the play and dance of ideas. — Eric Hoffer

Talent, and genius as well, is like a grain of pearl sand shifting about in the creative mind. A valued tormentor. — Truman Capote

Anytime you put yourself in a creative box, it's going to stifle you; it's not conducive to the writing or recording process. — Frank Iero

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

Perhaps, writing is like the taste of honey sucked from flowers in a garden, each tasting differently. — Anu Lal

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 don't think the creative writing industry has helped American poetry. — Robert Morgan

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

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

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

Creative Writing was not a form of psychotherapy, in ways both sublime and ridiculuous, it clearly was, precisely that. — A.S. Byatt

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

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

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

My creative process involves reading books and magazines, writing outside, and moving around a lot. I like to pace around when I'm writing songs. — Judith Hill

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

The trick to finding writing time is to make writing time in the life you've already got. — Julia Cameron

Like the child, the creative writing student is posited as a centre of vulnerable creativity, needful of attention and authority. — Rachel Cusk

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 movement
Of the body is
Where poetry
Begins — Clint Catalyst

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

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

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

Without us, in other words, there can never be hope of a We. — Junot Diaz

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

Writing is like shadow boxing. Editing is when the shadows fight back. — Adam Copeland

I feel better off doing what I know how to do. I feel a strong element of fictional style in travel writing anyway. Some call it creative nonfiction. — John Gimlette

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

Be as creative in your tactics as you are in your writing. Find what gets your engine going, no matter how peculiar it may seem to others. — Ralph Keyes

fiction writing can be a blast when you set aside debilitating notions of perfection and just dive headlong into the creative process. — Chris Baty

Inside is where we meet everyone else; it's on the outside that we are truly alone. — Charles Simic

I write to believe in goodness. — Red Haircrow

An author really ought to have nothing but flowers in the room where he works. — Gaston Leroux

i write
because

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

Well, my background is journalism. I don't have any creative-writing experience except for one class I took as a sophomore in college. — Dave Eggers

The brain is like a muscle; books are the diet and writing is the workout. — Stewart Stafford

Pain engraves a deeper memory. — Anne Sexton

To be creative, you have to be wrong most of the time. — Joe Craig

A creative writing class may be one of the last places you can go where your life still matters. — Richard Hugo

Writing is something you Do and not discuss. Talk is cheap, wishes are free and a fool is included with every purchase. So spend your time wisely. — Jaime Reed

Most people assume I write at night because of the kind of books I write, but I can shut out the light with my mind. — Carla H. Krueger

She was strangely unaware that she could look and see freshly for herself, as she wrote, without primary regard for what had been said before. — Robert M. Pirsig