Yuriy Tarnawsky Quotes

How can you teach someone to be creative? You have to create yourself.

Except for the usual house chores, doing income tax, etc., I am free to write whenever I want.

Imagination is so much more fertile than life.

I think I view myself primarily as a fiction writer. Poetry is more of a "hobby," a time of rest from the hard work of writing fiction.

In fact, the very phrase "teaching creative writing" sounds to me oxymoronic. How can you teach someone to be creative?

I must say that, on the whole, I prefer fiction to poetry.

I find that biographical material holds me back, hampers my creative process, cramps my imagination.