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“There is creative reading as well as creative writing.”

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Book:Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume V: 1835-1838

Source: Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume V: 1835-1838

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

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Author:Jay McInerney

“Some of my educated Filipino friends were aspiring poets, but their aspirations were all in the direction of the United States. They had no desire to learn from the bardic tradition that continued in the barrios. Their ideal would have been to write something that would get them to Iowa, where they would study creative writing.”

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Author:James Fenton

“I did not believe political directives could be successfully applied to creative writing . . . not to poetry or fiction, which to be valid had to express as truthfully as possible the individual emotions and reactions of the writer.”

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Book:I Wonder as I Wander: An Autobiographical Journey

Source: I Wonder as I Wander: An Autobiographical Journey

“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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Author:Orson Scott Card

“Poetry is something that happens in universities, in creative writing programs or in English departments.”

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Author:Mark Strand

“To me there is no such thing as creative writing. It's either good writing, whatever the subject, or it's not creative.”

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Book:Conversations with Erskine Caldwell

Source: Conversations with Erskine Caldwell

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

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Author:Dave Eggers

“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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Author:Peter Coyote

“I had never taken creative writing classes. Hadn't even considered it.”

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Author:Charles Frazier

“When I went to college I took a creative writing class and decided in a week to be a writer.”

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Author:David Guterson

“I've always written. When I was in school, the only teacher who ever liked me was my creative writing teacher. I used to enter poetry competitions, and I don't think I ever lost one. So I had the idea for a while of being some kind of poet.”

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Author:Justin Townes Earle

“I remember telling my creative writing teacher that you never want to have a journal, because if you lose it, then someone's going to know all your secrets. And then she stopped using a journal, but I always write everything down... Anytime I travel, I try and fill up notepads.”

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Author:Garrett Hedlund

“I wonder what it means about American literary culture and its transmission when I consider the number of American poets who earn their living teaching creative writing in universities. I've ended up doing that myself.”

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Author:Marilyn Hacker

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

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Author:Marilyn Hacker

“I see creative-writing classes as some sort of AA meeting. It is more of a support group for people who write than an actual course in which you learn writing skills. This support group is extremely important because there is something very lonely about writing.”

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Author:Etgar Keret

“I didn't do a masters in creative writing until I was 26, which is quite old, and then I found myself in New York and I needed money, so I started working full time as an editor.”

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Author:Rachel Kushner

“Now that I'm staring down the barrel of the last act of my life, I'm less excited about control and solo effort, and I resent the way the business aspects interfere with my space for creative writing.”

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Author:David Knopfler

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