Top 100 Quotes About Creative Writers
#1. Scholars look for final truths they will never find. Creative writers concern themselves with possibilities that are always there to the receptive.
Richard Hugo
#2. The problem with reality TV is that creative writers are not involved; TV folks are, and some journalists who will only mine the surface of subjects. Hard work necessary for discovering and delineating the intimacies of the subjects they capture is mostly avoided.
Lee Gutkind
#3. If professional religious leaders cannot instruct us in mythological lore, our artists and creative writers can perhaps step into this priestly role and bring fresh insight to our lost and damaged role.
Karen Armstrong
#4. Though not all reading children grow up to be writers, I take it that most creative writers must in their day have been reading children.
Elizabeth Bowen
#5. Creative writers are always greater than the causes that they represent.
E. M. Forster
#6. What politicians want and what creative writers want will always be profoundly different, because I'm afraid all politicians, of whatever hue, want propaganda, and writers want the truth, and they're not compatible.
David Hare
#7. For historians, creative writers provide a kind of pornography. They break the rules and admit the thing that is imagined, but is not licensed to be imagined.
Hilary Mantel
#8. My dad was an adventurer, my mother a romantic. When they met in college, both were creative writers; the writing was a bond.
Brian Herbert
#9. to be a poet means
to live
with a permanent wound
forever
susceptible
to either
the shade
of the sky
or someone's eyes.
Sanober Khan
#10. Isn't it strange how the most lethal cynics are often the most optimistic creative dreamers?
Robert Black
#11. In fiction, there happens to be a long history of creative engagement with marginality, with the very human components of society that others don't want to think about, from writers such as Dostoyevsky, Baudelaire, and Rimbaud to Genet and Sarrazin and right on up to Norman Mailer.
Rachel Kushner
#12. Stop waiting for creative inspiration. Start creating and inspire yourself along the way.
Ryan Lilly
#13. An author really ought to have nothing but flowers in the room where he works.
Gaston Leroux
#14. Doing nothing can be as rewarding as doing something. And doing very little can be as productive, in a creative sense, as doing a lot.
Fennel Hudson
#15. 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.
Edward Hirsch
#17. Writers are very much undervalued in the creative process.
Rachel Ward
#18. Art manifests itself in paradoxical ways. At times it creates and at times it gets created!
Avijeet Das
#19. In movies, books & even music, to me, the true artist is the writer. Writers have to begin the creative process by making nothing into something before it can ever manifest into anything.
Chris Mentillo
#20. The irritating question they ask us
us being writers
is: "Where do you get your ideas?"
And the answer is: Confluence. Things come together. The right ingredients and suddenly: Abracadabra!
Neil Gaiman
#21. I never attended a creative writing class in my life. I have a horror of them; most writers groups moonlight as support groups for the kind of people who think that writing is therapeutic. Writing is the exact opposite of therapy.
Zadie Smith
#22. I can still remember the miraculous feeling of writing a sentence, then more sentences, telling a story. The first thing I wrote was a one-page summary of Robinson Crusoe and I am so sorry I do not have it any more; it was at that moment I became an author.
Henning Mankell
#23. If you want to know why all writers are a little crazy read 'The Midnight Disease' by Alice W. Flaherty. She talks about the drive to write, writer's block, and the creative brain. I know what's wrong with me!
Dorothea Benton Frank
#24. What's great is that a lot of us are playing so against type in this, and it's awesome. All of the writers put faith in the fact that we know what we're doing. We have creative freedom, and it's awesome. I think it all worked out. Everybody on the show is so good.
Laura Prepon
#25. And I have the support of the writers: I have a great relationship with the creative team, and they have a good hold of my character and my personality, and they come up with some great stuff, and I'm forever trying to change it up, keep it fresh.
Trish Stratus
#26. Dance above the surface of the world. Let your thoughts lift you into creativity that is not hampered by opinion.
Red Haircrow
#28. I have learned to respect ideas, wherever they come from. Often they come from clients. Account executives often have big creative ideas, regardless of what some writers think.
Leo Burnett
#29. The Difference between Writers and Editors.
Writers are creative using one end of a pencil.
Editors are more adept using the opposite end.
Roy A. Higgins
#30. poetry. i am not writing it.
(make way for me please)
it is my skin. dripping with light.
Sanober Khan
#32. Being a creative person. It's so much more rewarding when you find things on your own, to live whatever the writers are writing or to display what the director is looking for. You are the thing that everybody uses to get the story out.
Laura Bell Bundy
#33. A hammer made of deadlines is the surest tool for crushing writer's block.
Ryan Lilly
#34. Every morning I jump out of bed and step on a landmine. The landmine is me. After the explosion, I spend the rest of the day putting the pieces together.
Ray Bradbury
#35. What happens is that the experience of writers working together and the idea of creative collaboration is so delightful, but it has been relegated to TV.
Akiva Goldsman
#36. Most writers - poets in especial - prefer having it understood that they compose by a species of fine frenzy - an ecstatic intuition - and would positively shudder at letting the public take a peep behind the scenes ...
Edgar Allan Poe
#37. To annoy or piss off are light offences. I'd say if you abuse the goodness of a novelist or a writer, the truth is, he or she can kill you multiple times or cannibalise you in many antagonist characters.
Angelica Hopes
#38. Writers think with their soul and draft from their heart
Lisa Fantino
#40. The great leaders of business, industry, finance, and the great artists, musicians, poets, and writers became great, because they developed the faculty of creative imagination.
Napoleon Hill
#41. All you have to do is put one word after another, and remember how great it feels to be a writer.
Stephanie Lennox
#43. The dilemma felt by science fiction writers will be perceived in other creative endeavors.
Vernor Vinge
#44. Many artists and writers have used cannabis for creative stimulation - from the writers of the world's religious masterpieces to our most irreverent satirists.
Jack Herer
#45. Not only was he not mad, but he was a musician, and my favorite men had always been musicians or writers or anything that involved the creative process and behaving like tortured artists ... I found financial insecurity a great aphrodisiac.
Marian Keyes
#46. Anxious, inexperienced writers obey rules. Rebellious, unschooled writers break rules. Artists master the form.
Robert McKee
#47. In America, writers are afforded the freedom to express themselves in unlimited manners. Creative liberty is a privilege.
Michael Graves
#48. Writers always have confidence issues - it comes with the territory. We never know where we fit in, or what the actual value of our work might be. So we hit lulls, or slogs. Throw in the idea that many creative people are somewhat manic-depressive, and it can get pretty dark at times.
R.A. Salvatore
#49. My most important piece of advice to all you would-be writers: When you write, try to leave out all the parts readers skip.
Elmore Leonard
#50. I would love to write more children's books. There is such a high standard out there for children's books; there are really amazing writers. It is a fantastic creative outlet and such an amazing teaching tool. The thing I love about kids, too, is it is so imaginative and poetic.
Jewel
#51. Writers do not have the privilege of sleep. There is always a story coming alive in their heads, constantly composing. Whether they choose it or not.
Coco J. Ginger
#52. As far as my creative urge is concerned, I do sit down and write my own music ... I'll tell you a writer who I think is a genius: Ray Stevens. He comes up with some of the most fantastic novelty ideas. Dolly Parton also writes well. I like a lot of songs, a lot of writers.
Boudleaux Bryant
#53. Writing is the high alchemy of the soul that combines words and ideas to create magic.
Sharif Khan
#54. I like working among 'creative clutter'. It gives me a sense of activity and achievement.
Fennel Hudson
#55. I'm always impressed with the way the writers find new and creative ways of killing people. But my favourite has to be the hat pin through the ear.
John Nettles
#56. Writing is something you Do and not discuss. Talk is cheap, wishes are free and a fool is included with every purchase. So spend your time wisely.
Jaime Reed
#57. I'm a fool for a good role in a creative piece where there are really such talented writers and wonderful actors.
Sissy Spacek
#58. When you do music, your friends are writers, actors, painters. It's all under the same roof. So anything creative is interesting to me.
Alison Mosshart
#59. The dreamtime of creative work is a turnstile to eternity. (from Workbok)
Steven Heighton
#60. I've been known to write 10 pages a day for 10 days running before I take a breath. I am not a disciplined writer. I'm one of those people who laughingly call themselves inspirational writers, which basically means someone who has no control over their own creative process.
Catherine Ryan Hyde
#61. She was strangely unaware that she could look and see freshly for herself, as she wrote, without primary regard for what had been said before.
Robert M. Pirsig
#62. After so many years, I've learned that being creative is a full-time job with its own daily patterns. That's why writers, for example, like to establish routines for themselves.
Twyla Tharp
#63. Why my interest in writers? Well, I'm one, and many of my friends are writers. I know what it's like to write. I'm interested in the creative process. I'm fascinated by the disparity between who we are on the outside, and what we have bubbling away inside us.
Eric Brown
#64. From my years of teaching creative writing, I know that new writers take the setting for granted, as simply a place to set the action, but setting is a vital element in fiction writing and deserves serious treatment.
Garry Disher
#65. Something I notice speaking to writers from south of Hadrian's Wall is that the culture is different. At base, I think Scotland values its creative industries differently from England.
Sara Sheridan
#66. It comes a point in which you don't know if you write books or the books write you
Robin Sacredfire
#67. i write
because
it is
the only way
i can
reach you.
Sanober Khan
#68. We are doing the most important possible work in the world when we open the door and reveal our creative nature.
It is the work of the Universe itself.
Jacob Nordby
#69. Forward-thinking organizations seek hybrid professionals who are highly proficient writers, analytical, creative, and tech savvy, with strong competencies in business management, information technology (IT), and human behavior.
Paul Roetzer
#70. It's amazing what you can do when you get creative.
A.D. Posey
#71. Most people assume I write at night because of the kind of books I write, but I can shut out the light with my mind.
Carla H. Krueger
#72. TV is very much my first love. I love this world. It's where writers have the most creative control, and I just love that.
Melissa Rosenberg
#73. Creative arts, new inventions, and new ideas spring from those blessed with imagination, and magic stimulates imagination. It is no coincidence that many artists, writers, and dancers are interested in magic.
Vivianne Crowley
#74. Described as a "workaholic speed-writing freak" by fellow writers, a "creative writing class drill sergeant" by his writing 'padawans', Voinov is a self-confessed geek and has enlarged his days by 12 secret hours in return for the sacrifice of ten albino virgin pygmy hippos.
Aleksandr Voinov
#75. Musicians have notes. Painters have paint. Writers have words.
Lisa Fantino
#76. I write whenever it suits me. During a creative period I write every day; a novel should not be interrupted.
Francois Mauriac
#77. Women have sat indoors all these millions of years, so that by this time the very walls are permeated by their creative force, which has, indeed, so overcharged the capacity of bricks and mortar that it must needs harness itself to pens and brushes and business and politics.
Virginia Woolf
#78. It is true that the discerning intellect of the world is always much in advance of the creative, so that there are competent judges of the best book, and few writers of the best books.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#79. I think television keeps on being a place where writers can go, and if they're successful, they can have their way, and they can have creative freedom.
James L. Brooks
#80. What is The Subconscious to every other man, in its creative aspect becomes, for writers, The Muse.
Ray Bradbury
#82. A creative writing program is only as good as its teachers, and I was fortunate in having two great writers as mentors.
Jay McInerney
#83. I've noticed over the past years of my writerly life that women writers in particular are discouraged in cleverly disguised forms from including the intellectual in their creative material way more than you would believe.
Lidia Yuknavitch
#84. Write at a pace that doesn't surpass your creative flow. Don't be hasty; don't be sloppy. Don't forfeit impressive writing for an impressive word count. Because eventually it will all have to be edited, and you'll find that it is harder to make bad writing good than to make good writing better.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#85. All writing problems are psychological problems. Blocks usually stem from the fear of being judged. If you imagine the world listening, you'll never write a line. That's why privacy is so important. You should write first drafts as if they will never be shown to anyone.
Erica Jong
#87. When I write, I fall into the zone many writers, painters, musicians, athletes, and craftsmen of all sorts seem to share: In doing something I enjoy and am expert at, deliberate thought falls aside and it is all just THERE. I think of the next word no more than the composer thinks of the next note.
Roger Ebert
#88. Strive to be beyond what others perceive you to be, by striving beyond the limits of yourself.
Debbie Tosun Kilday
#89. It is kind of ridiculous that a poet is expected to live in the real world.
Sanober Khan
#90. Like so many other nerdy, disaffected young people of that time, I dreamed of becoming an 'artist', i.e., somebody whose adult job was original and creative instead of tedious and dronelike.
David Foster Wallace
#91. 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
#92. There is no such thing as an 'unemployed writer', only an unemployed mind
Kevin Cowdall
#93. When you're doing a pilot, you're doing it in this bubble that almost works against the creative impulse. You don't have time to get to know the actors first, and you have three writers, as opposed to a room full of writers.
Josh Gad
#94. Writing nonfiction means I tell people's stories for them, not because they're special but because we all are.
Jo Deurbrouck
#95. Readers have a loyalty that cannot be matched anywhere else in the creative arts, which explains why so many writers who have run out of gas can keep coasting anyway, propelled on to the bestseller lists by the magic words AUTHOR OF on the covers of their books.
Stephen King
#96. The sooner you finish procrastinating, the sooner you can get back to your art.
Stephanie Lennox
#97. Being an author is to have a toe in the creative pool and a foot in the vat of commerce.
Fennel Hudson
#98. The writers are so smart, I can only imagine. I would love to be in that room. I love the creative process.
Carrie-Anne Moss
#99. I think that all writers feel alienated ... I know that I do ... I still feel, as I think most creative people do, absolutely isolated.
John Le Carre
#100. Writers are entirely egocentric. To them, few things in their lives have meaning or importance unless they give promise of serving some creative purpose.
Doris Grumbach
