307 Quotes About Creative-writing

We are taken through the pursuit of the American dream, the establishment of the American family, and a smattering of suspense and intrigue.

Perhaps, writing is like the taste of honey sucked from flowers in a garden, each tasting differently.

Giving these students, teenagers, any form of power over the use of their own words, allowing them to turn everyday raw material into some form of beauty, is a gift beyond measure.

You can work to create a bright future.

The road to publishing success is paved with writing.

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.

First time I ever put pen to paper, I had one goal – to build something no one had ever thought of before.

You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have. As quoted in Conversations with Maya Angelou (1989)

The struggle for a life extracts all our attention, and leaves us blind, deaf, dumb and senseless. The writer, the artist, the musician vanishes, without even the charity of a proper cremation. At this point words become formless sounds, and thoughts run out of paper and jump out of the terra firma and fly in the air, forcing us to find someone to share them with, someone who could understand. The fear of wasting words is the worst kind of it, only a writer knows.