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Creative Writing Quotes
Where storytelling becomes a craft.
These creative writing quotes reflect on the pull toward storytelling, from childhood instincts to formal study in college programs. For more on craft, browse Creative quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
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- Nov 07, 2020
I did a minor in creative writing in college, but I didn't start writing until I stayed at home with my own children.
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father's father wrote for a Philadelphia newspaper and aspired to be a playwright. We had in our house a couple of crazy unproduced plays that he had written. For the one creative writing class I took in my life, I didn't do any writing - I decided that I would plagiarize his terrible play to not fail the class.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I worry that people think you have to go to a university to be a good writer, which is categorically untrue. I don't think I learned how to write at Oxford. I did not go to any creative writing classes or anything.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was never forced to write. At least, I was never forced or even encouraged to write fiction. Creative writing wasn't in the curriculum at my school when I was in sixth grade.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't think American poetry has gotten any better in the past 35 years. Oddly enough, creative writing programs seem to have been good for fiction, and I would not have predicted that.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I majored in English with a specialization in creative writing along with Asian American Studies.
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was at UCLA, a professor there encouraged me to write, and so I looked into specializing in creative writing in the English Department. And through that, I started writing plays.
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I got out of college and I went to get my master's in creative writing at San Francisco State. I was working as an actor at the Actor's Workshop, being abused as a intern.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I took my first creative writing class when I was 24, then went onto to get a graduate degree in poetry. I've sort of never looked back from there.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I fell into playwriting accidentally, took some classes in it, and also took creative writing classes, but I really didn't expect it to be a career because I didn't believe there was a way to make money as a playwright without being lucky and I didn't feel particularly lucky.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I left the University of Chicago's creative writing program for a tenure-track job at DePauw University in Indiana, then left DePauw in 2010 for Los Angeles.
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- Nov 07, 2020