The truth, or success,
The truth, or success, of any writer’s story lies partly in its specificity and its emotional honesty. Gail Caldwell
Creative Writing
I see creative-writing classes
I see creative-writing classes as some sort of AA meeting. It is more of a support group for people who write than an actual course in which you learn writing skills. This support group is extremely important because there is something very lonely about writing. Etgar Keret
To me there is
To me there is no such thing as creative writing. It’s either good writing, whatever the subject, or it’s not creative. Erskine Caldwell
When something can be
When something can be read without effort, great effort has gone into its writing. Enrique Jardiel Poncela
The process of writing
The process of writing has something infinite about it. Even though it is interrupted each night, it is one single notation. Elias Canetti
Creative writing and shooting
Creative writing and shooting are muscles that atrophy. But when you work them, you become a self-generator who can branch out. Eli Roth
When I taught at
When I taught at the University of Houston in the Creative Writing program we required the poets to take workshops in fiction writing and we required the fiction writers to take workshops in poetry. And the reason for that is because the fiction writers seemed to need to learn how to pay greater attention to … Read more
Most writers – poets
Most writers – poets in especial – prefer having it understood that they compose by a species of fine frenzy – an ecstatic intuition – and would positively shudder at letting the public take a peep behind the scenes. Edgar Allan Poe
Writers are not just
Writers are not just people who sit down and write. They hazard themselves. Every time you compose a book your composition of yourself is at stake. E. L. Doctorow
I am an English
I am an English major in school with an emphasis in creative writing. I think hearing Maya Angelou speak at school last year was one of the best moments Stanford, at least, intellectually, had to offer. Fred Savage