Quotes About Being A Creative Writer

#1. There is no way of being a creative writer in America without being a loser.

Nelson Algren

#2. Life goes on and so does love. As

Nicholas Tanek

#3. There are too many "creative writing" courses and seminars, in which young wirters are constantly being taught to rewrite the previous generation. They should be experimenting on their own. Every writer faces different problems which he must solve for himself.

John Dos Passos

#4. America is beyond power; it acts as in a dream, as a face of God. Wherever America is, there is freedom, and wherever America is not, madness rules with chains, darkness strangles millions. Beneath her patient bombers, paradise is possible.

John Updike

#5. I'm a writer, so I interview people all the time, and I think of it as being a very creative process. Giving interviews is actually one of the most creative parts of the film promotion process.

Aaron Rose

#6. Being an author is to have a toe in the creative pool and a foot in the vat of commerce.

Fennel Hudson

#7. The creative writer uses his life as well as being its victim; he can control, in his work, the self-presentation that in actuality is at the mercy of a thousand accidents.

John Updike

#8. What is hell to a writer? Hell is being too busy to find the time to write or being unable to find the inspiration. Hell is suddenly finding the words but being away from your notebook or typewriter. Hell is when the verses slip away through your fingers and they never return again.

R.M. Engelhardt

#9. The best thing about a being a writer is the creative process. I often describe it as a beautiful headache that I wouldn't change for anything.

Nicole Huggins

#10. What men call friendship is no more than a partnership, a mutual care of interests, an exchange of favors - in a word, it is a sort of traffic, in which self-love ever proposes to be the gainer.

Francois De La Rochefoucauld

#11. Words pass through walls and slip past lock and key,
and numbing cold seeps to our very bones.

Titus Lucretius Carus

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

Heather Sellers

#13. Wars spring from unseen and generally insignificant causes, the first outbreak being often but an explosion of anger.

Thucydides

#14. I'm really glad that Italy went out, they were playing boring football.
(on Euro 2004)

Andy Townsend

#15. Being a writer is not just about typing. It's also about surviving the rollercoaster of the creative journey.

Joanna Penn

#16. A teacher who establishes rapport with the taught,
becomes one with them,
learns more from them than he teaches them.

Mahatma Gandhi