Creative-writing Quotes

Workshop Hermeticism, fiction for which the highest praise involves the words 'competent,' 'finished...

Isn't the writing of good prose an emotional excitement?""Yes, of course it is. At least, when you g...

I often said that writers are of two types.There is the architect, which is one type. The architect,...

If you criticize what you’re doing too early you’ll never write the first li

You don't write a novel out of sheer pity any more than you blow a safe out of a vague longing to be...

Create a character with an obsession, then follow.

She was strangely unaware that she could look and see freshly for herself, as she wrote, without pri...

By the early-afternoon hours, if your brain is normal, it's running strictly on inertia and reflex. ...

Keep your whole being on the thing you are turning into words. The minute you flinch, and take your ...

What I am going to propose is that you write a novel.As you know, the practical advantages of being ...

The difference between a fairly interesting writer and a fascinating writer is that the fascinating ...

There is no correct way to write a novel, or rather, there is only one, and that one way is to make ...

At one time I thought the most important thing was talent. I think now that — the young man or the y...

At one time I thought the most important thing was talent. I think now that — the young man or the y...

When the lyrical muse sings the creative pen dances.

Anecdotes don't make good stories. Dig down so far that what finally comes out is not even what you ...

Does any program really improve anybody, as much as simply identifying them? And, after identifying ...

Does any (MFA) program really improve anybody, as much as simply identifying them? And, after identi...