Creative Writing Quotes

I believe the best creative writing lessons live in the specifics.

Poetry is something that happens in universities, in creative writing programs or in English departments.

The professionalization of poetry, or the balkanization, has come out of the fact that when you apply to most creative writing programs, you have to choose your genre.

The best and only true history we have. Everyone interested in creative writing should know this book.

I was an A student and I liked creative writing.

Uniform of a soldier and uniform of a student both are equally needed for the nation.

Don't compare the size of your roof with the size of the sky.

Simplicity saves strength.

Action achieves ambition.

Rich can live better than poor but they cannot live without poor.

Education makes your maths better, not necessarily your manners.

Don't always use prudence for precaution, sometimes use it for progress.

Faster is fatal, slower is safe.

The world is administered by rich but it is constructed by poor.

Health is hearty, health is harmony, health is happiness.

A slip of the foot may injure your body, but a slip of the tongue will injure your bond.

One who doesn't recognise an opportunity is bigger loser than one who tries his hand at an opportunity.

War is not just the shower of bullets and bombs from both sides, it is also the shower of blood and bones on both sides.

My spouse is my shield, my spouse is my strength.

Principles in a poor is admirable as politeness in a prince.

Seed becomes tree, son becomes stranger.

Before you worry about the beauty of your body, worry about the health of your body.

You can not control the thought, but you can control the tongue.

It is a dangerous thing to substitute reading or writing for living. Live first, then write.

All I need to dois place my pen against paperand your lovewrites for me.

See the world anew and write down the bones of it.

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.

Writers fly with imaginary wings.

Writing is the high alchemy of the soul that combines words and ideas to create magic.

Every time you go to see Hamlet you don't expect it to have a happy ending...you're still enthralled.(Interview BBC Radio 4 Today 17 October 2012.)

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

It’s despicable of an author to kill his main personage solely for stirring imagination of indifferent or mean minds.

All stories are the sin of their weaver.

Write to Say something, Say to Make something, Make to Be something.

Every kingdom has three pillars: Poet, Sword and Law.

You can work to create a bright future.

In writing, there is art. And in art, there is craft ...

In writing there is art - and in art there is craft ...

Walk with the Creator on the face of earth.

Creativity is the brain's invisible muscle -- that when used and excercised routinely -- becomes better and stronger.

She might not have read many books. But when she reads a book, she swallows the very words. If you open the books on her shelves, you will find that the front and back covers encase white pages.

You may be a poet and not even know it.

For every writer, there is a challenge of time that is only magnified in the solitude of the work.

Writing fiction is one of the greatest forms of empathy. It's not enough to simply write from the perspective of your characters...you have to feel what they feel.

Create a character with an obsession, then follow.

Does any (MFA) program really improve anybody, as much as simply identifying them? And, after identifying them, not ruining them?

What is it about us lady authors and our fascination for the exclamation mark?

In the very end, all we have left to atone for our faults are words.

Writing is like daydreaming through your fingers.

It comes a point in which you don't know if you write books or the books write you