307 Quotes About Creative-writing


  • Author Kilroy J. Oldster
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    A person suffering a meaning crisis in their life can ill afford not to investigate their life and examine their beliefs before personal disdain for living conspires to exterminate their most precious gift, the spark of creativity and desire to produce an artistic testament to their existence.

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  • Author Suman Pokhrel
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    In translation of poetry; there exists a possibility of components like imagination, art of wordplay, skill of constructing internal rhythm and expand of knowledge of the poet getting affected by the constraint and differentia of the translator.

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  • Author David Mura
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    Writing comes out of the rift between what we have experienced and the language we've been given to express it. We write to bridge this divide, to find word adequate to our sense of reality...Creative writing is the search for and creation of a language that will express what the writer unconsciously knows but does not yet have a language to express.

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  • Author Francine Prose
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    …what matters is not complexity or decoration but rather intelligibility, grace, and the fact that the sentence should strike us as the perfect vehicle for expressing what it aims to express…

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  • Author Mekael Shane
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    As We Sail ByWe floatThrough purple velvet skiesOut where, black holes are bornAnd the Milky-Way diesWe flyThrough purple hazed skiesOut where, nebulas fadeAnd an apricot sun spiesWe coastThrough purple blue skiesOut where, the platinum moon sits andSupernovas explode as we sail byExcerpt from:Exegesis, a Decade of Poetry, by Mekael© Mekael Shane 2009

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