Top 1200 Creative Writing Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

I was going to try to get into the creative writing program at Berkeley; it's just that the acting thing worked out.

Anytime you put yourself in a creative box, it's going to stifle you; it's not conducive to the writing or recording process.

The way to start writing isn't by writing at all. But by living. It isn't about creating something from thin air, but about documenting our personal feelings about the things that we see. Or to put it crudely, how are you going to be a storyteller if you have no story to tell? Perhaps, in the end, there are no such things as creative people; they are only sharp observers with sensitive hearts.

Chess, like any creative activity, can exist only through the combined efforts of those who have creative talent, and those who have the ability to organize their creative work

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

... the precedents for feminine self-expression run back through all the ages since the art of writing was invented. ... The era may witness the first female engineer, motor truck chauffeur, radio broadcaster, head of an aviation school, or federal prohibition officer, but it has not produced the first thinking, creative, and writing woman by any means.

For some reason there's this myth that creativity - [especially] in terms of creative writing - is a gift you either have, or you don't. So when people first start writing, if they write something that's not very good, or if they try and it's difficult, they go, "Oh, I guess I don't have it." That doesn't seem very fair, you have to try and you have to work at it. If we get scared of one bad poem and quit, that's not doing anybody any good.

The writing and recording process is what I enjoy, it allows me to be creative and work with different artists and producers.

I love to write, so I think writing would be the next natural step. And if I'm making something that I'm writing, it would also probably make sense to be a producer and have some creative input from that perspective as well. Eventually, I do want to direct, but I want to get comfortable in those two jobs first. I want to dip my foot into this pool before I dive in I guess.

Well, my background is journalism. I don't have any creative-writing experience except for one class I took as a sophomore in college.

There is no adequate definition for creative writing, any more than it is possible to describe pain or flavor or color.

Creative Writing was not a form of psychotherapy, in ways both sublime and ridiculuous, it clearly was, precisely that.

The phenomenon of university creative writing programs doesn't exist in France. The whole idea is regarded as a novelty, or an oddity.

When ambition enters, creativity disappears - because an ambitious man cannot be creative, because an ambitious man cannot love any activity for its own sake. While he is painting he is looking ahead; he is thinking, 'When am I going to get a Nobel Prize?' When he is writing a novel, he is looking ahead. He is always in the future - and a creative person is always in the present.

Suddenly creativity is the popular goal. Ironically, a quality dissonant with our conventional education process is greatly in demand in adults - and those who survive the system without losing their creative integrity are richly rewarded. The magic word in a book's title almost ensures sales: Creative Stitchery, Creative Cookery, Creative Gardening. ... Perhaps we are trying to develop something that was innately ours.

I never considered writing as a career - it was always a creative outlet for me and something I just loved to do.

Becoming a writer means being creative enough to find the time and the place in your life for writing.

Creative writing and shooting are muscles that atrophy. But when you work them, you become a self-generator who can branch out.

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.

I don't know if I ever would have developed into a good actor, but that got completely scotched when I lost my vocal cord at 14 in the operation. But writing always - writing plays, writing, writing, writing, that was what I wanted to do.

I never divide photographers into creative and uncreative, I just call them photographers. Who is creative? How do you know who is creative or not?

Any writer who believes in the 'lucky creative accident' in writing is pushing elephants on roller skates up greased ramps.

I learned to not separate writing, shooting, and editing, it's all sort of one big mess of creative output.

I spent a lot of time being creative as a child - painting, drawing and writing poetry.

I really think that if there's any one enemy to human creativity, especially creative writing, it's self-consciousness.

When I'm writing, I'm writing for a particular actor. When a lot of writers are writing, they're writing an idea. So they're not really writing in a specific voice.

I was an English major in college, took a ton of creative writing courses, and was a newspaper reporter for 10 years.

A piece of creative writing, like a day-dream, is a continuation of, and a substitute for, what was once the play of childhood.

I took an MA course in creative writing a couple of years back, and I was definitely in the bottom of the class.

I'd been in college studying English creative writing and history when I made the decision to join the Marines in the runup to the Iraq war.

Bad writing as a conscious goal is liberating for students: They are freed to be creative in a new and different way.

Writing is a creative process, and you need to have the doors and windows of your mind open so that you have the possibility of change.

Like the child, the creative writing student is posited as a centre of vulnerable creativity, needful of attention and authority.

Do you think of yourself as a creative personality? If you do, you are both fortunate and correct, in fact the beautiful truth is that everyone is creative and we all have the ability to develop our creative potential. It is wise to remember that the person who follows the crowd will get no further than the crowd. The person who walks the creative path is likely to find they are in places no one has ever been before.

Most applicants to creative writing programs submit stories about the angst of their suburban childhoods.

Planning to write is not writing. Outlining, researching, talking to people about what you're doing - none of that is writing. Writing is writing. Writing is like driving at night in the fog. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.

Creative writing programmes are not very necessary. They just exist so that people like us can make a living.

My dad was an adventurer, my mother a romantic. When they met in college, both were creative writers; the writing was a bond.

I minored in creative writing in college, and I've played with the idea of doing something more hybrid, but comics are my first love.

Use the creative process - singing, writing, art, dance, whatever - to get to know yourself better.

I recognize this in my writing process. A consistent writing structure opens the door to amazing insights. I recognize the truth of this in my daily habits. When I set my keys in the place I, with practice, always set my keys... I do not lose them. In many instances an ordered external structure can be an invitation for an extraordinarily unfettered, creative and unbounded inner structure.

Though I feared I would have no progress when I put down the drink, [my writing] hasn't changed. The creative search, and the fragments that I collect, reflects that.

A creative moment is part of a longer creative process which, in turn, is part of a creative life.

Phases of the creative process: Preparation-gathering impressions Incubation-letting go of certainties Immersion/Illumination-creative intervention/risk Revision-conscious structuring and editing of creative material.

Writing was my route to creative expression, and I needed to write about the things that interested me.

'Just' writing is every bit as important as any other creative part of a film.

People talk about songwriting or comedy as creative expression, but life is creative expression. Table-making, even nursing, is extraordinarily creative.

I got my undergrad in Creative Writing, and then I didn't get my Masters in obsession, because I figured I already had that covered.

I stay away from the arts... writing songs, being creative - those are downloads from God. You can't do data analytics on art.

God flourished my ministry and my career of creative thinking, communicating and writing back 50 years.

When I used to teach creative writing, I would tell the students to make their characters want something right away.

A creative writing program is only as good as its teachers, and I was fortunate in having two great writers as mentors.

It's impossible for a creative artist to be either a Puritan or a Fascist, because both are a negation of the creative urge. The only things a creative artist can be opposed to are ugliness and injustice.

A creative writing class may be one of the last places you can go where your life still matters.

I like the discipline of writing a script. You can't go into the character's head - you have to find these creative ways to help externalize what they're thinking.

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.

People equate job titles to levels of creativity. We think that musicians are creative while accountants are not. Job title has nothing to do with human creativity. In fact, we all have enormous creative potential. Even those that often state with authority that "I'm not creative." With a systematic approach to building creative capacity, we all have the opportunity to create and leave a mark on the world.

Creativity was definitely a big part of our household, and I remember always writing stories and being encouraged to be creative.

I went to school for creative writing in college, and I wound up about six hours short of my degree.

Love is what makes you do everything. It really does conquer all. With my first album, I was writing about empowerment hoping that would make it true. And now it is. I'm in charge. I make the rules. I've been writing since I was nine years old and I'm very much involved in the creative process. And now that I'm in a happier place in my personal life, I'm spitting songs out left and right.