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“Very little in science fiction can transcend the gimmickry of a technical conceit, yet without that conceit at its heart a book is not truly science fiction. Furthermore, so little emerging thought and technology is employed by sf writers today that the genre is lagging far behind reality both in the cosmology area and the technology area: sf is no longer a place to experiment, but is now very derivative.”

Heart Littles Book Reality Today Behinds Fiction Technology Fantasy Areas Science Fiction Experiments Genre Employed Creative Writing Emerging Conceit Cosmology Derivatives Genre Is

Author:Janet Morris

“The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.”

Life Writing Reality Truth Differences Fiction Humorous Definitions Witty Make Sense Creative Writing Fiction Writing Nothing Makes Sense Fiction And Reality

Author:Tom Clancy

“The road to hell is paved with works-in-progress.”

“The road to hell is paved with adverbs.”

“Writing for me is a form of spiritual discipline and creative vision, a means of being in the world and giving one's love to it without compromise or dilution.”

World Love Giving Writing Mean Spiritual Form Vision Creative Discipline Compromise Creative Writing Spiritual Disciplines Creative Vision

Author:Aberjhani

“Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.”

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

Writing May Stills Matter Lasts Class Creative Teaching Creative Writing Last Place

Author:Richard Hugo

“By writing much, one learns to write well.”

Writing Wells Creative Writing Creativity And Writing

Author:Robert Southey

“Creativity is a habit, and the best creativity is a result of good work habits. That's it in a nutshell ... In order to be creative you have to know how to prepare to be creative.”

Knows Writing Order Results Creativity Know How Creative Habit Good Work Be Creative Creative Writing Work Habits

Author:Twyla Tharp

“No author dislikes to be edited as much as he dislikes not to be published.”

Writing Art Entertainment Dislike Editing Creative Writing Edited Editing And Writing

Author:Russell Lynes

“Drama, instead of telling us the whole of a man's life, must place him in such a situation, tie such a knot, that when it is untied, the whole man is visible.”

Men Writing Whole Situation Drama Ties Visible Creative Writing Knots

Book:Translations from the Russian

Source: Translations from the Russian

“The road to hell is paved with good intentions.”

“Like a Passover Poet gliding from house to house and from trembling soul to trembling soul the wind scribbled sonnets of first time love and weeping haikus of last hours on earth.”

Love Firsts Soul Earth Lasts House Hours Poet Wind First Time Creative Writing Weeping Sonnet Haiku Trembling Time Love Gliding

Book:The River of Winged Dreams (Hardcover Gift Edition)

Source: The River of Winged Dreams (Hardcover Gift Edition)

“If you want to write something completely unique, you will probably fail or at best write something without redeeming value. The mind works in certain patterns: the mind organizes facts in story form; it is your commonality with that body of human thought that makes a good book, not its estrangement from the common values that humans share.”

“I am an English major in school with an emphasis in creative writing. I think hearing Maya Angelou speak at school last year was one of the best moments Stanford, at least, intellectually, had to offer.”

Thinking Writing Years Moments School Lasts Speak Creative Offers Majors Hearing Last Year Emphasis Creative Writing Stanford Best Moments English Major Angelou

Author:Fred Savage

“Metaphors are not user-friendly. They're difficult to find and difficult to use well. Unfortunately, metaphors are a mainstay of good lyric writing-indeed of most creative writing. ...metaphors support lyrics like bones.”

Writing Wells Use Difficult Support Creative Metaphor Bones Friendly Songwriting Users Creative Writing User Friendly Good Lyric

Author:Pat Pattison

“We have always learned about life by dramatising our questions.”

Writing Creative Creative Writing

Author:Celia Brayfield

“If you can't play all the instruments in the orchestra of story, no matter what music may be in your imagination, you're condemned to hum the same old tune.”

Ifs Writing May Matter Play Stories Imagination Creative No Matter What Instruments Tunes Orchestra Creative Writing

Book:Story: Style, Structure, Substance, and the Principles of Screenwriting

Source: Story: Style, Structure, Substance, and the Principles of Screenwriting

“The novelist's ambition is not to do something better than his predecessors but to see what they did not see, say what they did not say.”

Writing Creative Ambition Novelists Creative Writing Something Better Predecessors

Author:Milan Kundera

“Without craft, art remains private. Without art, craft is merely hackwork.”

Writing Art Creative Remains Crafts Creative Writing

Book:The Faith of a Writer: Life, Craft, Art

Source: The Faith of a Writer: Life, Craft, Art

“One should be able to return to the first sentence of a novel and find the resonances of the entire work.”

Should Writing Firsts Able Novel Creative Return Sentences Creative Writing Resonance

Author:Gloria Naylor

“All the elements of good writing depend on the writer's skill in choosing one word instead of another.”

Writing Creative Depends Skills Elements Creative Writing One Word Good Writing Choosing One

Book:Reading Like a Writer: A Guide for People Who Love Books and for Those Who Want to Write Them

Source: Reading Like a Writer: A Guide for People Who Love Books and for Those Who Want to Write Them

“Good prose almost always requires both showing and telling, scenes and summary, the two basic components of creative prose.”

Writing Two Creative Scene Prose Components Creative Writing Summary

Book:Showing & Telling: Learn How to Show & When to Tell for Powerful & Balanced Writing

Source: Showing & Telling: Learn How to Show & When to Tell for Powerful & Balanced Writing

“To be the kind of writer you want to be, you must first be the kind of thinker you want to be.”

Want Writing Firsts Kind Creative Thinker Be You Be Creative Creative Writing

Book:The Art of Fiction: A Guide for Writers and Readers

Source: The Art of Fiction: A Guide for Writers and Readers

“By what he chooses to present and by how he presents it, any author expresses his fundamental, metaphysical values.”

Writing Values Creative Fundamentals Metaphysical Creative Writing

Book:The Art of Fiction: A Guide for Writers and Readers

Source: The Art of Fiction: A Guide for Writers and Readers

“If he can give his readers no reason why they should read his book, except that the events happened to him, it is not a valid book.”

Ifs Giving Should Writing Book Reason Creative Happened Events Reader Reason Why No Reason Creative Writing

Book:The Art of Fiction: A Guide for Writers and Readers

Source: The Art of Fiction: A Guide for Writers and Readers

“A hero knows it takes hard work and a long time to get published; a fool thinks it should happen immediately, because he thinks heÕs a hero already.”

Thinking Knows Should Writing Long Hard Happens Creative Hard Work Fool Hero Long Time Creative Writing

Author:James Scott

“Fantasy is the impossible made probable. Science Fiction is the improbable made possible.”

Writing Made Fiction Fantasy Creative Impossible Science Fiction Sci Fi Creative Writing Improbable Science Fiction And Fantasy

Author:Rod Serling

“Plot is a map and I begin with it. It is what made me admire the novels of the 19th century; that the stories are foreshadowed. TheyÕre going someplace.”

Writing Made Stories Novel Creative Century Admire Plot Maps Creative Writing 19th Century

Author:John Irving

“The truth, or success, of any writer's story lies partly in its specificity and its emotional honesty.”

Writing Stories Lying Creative Honesty Emotional Creative Writing Specificity Emotional Honesty

Author:Gail Caldwell

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

Writing Years Courses Creative College Majors Newspapers Reporters Creative Writing English Major Newspaper Reporters

Author:Jennifer Weiner

“The only good grades I ever got in school before I was kicked out were for creative writing. I thought that fiction might be in my future but then my career took a different path once the Beatles showed me what a blast being in a band could be. Writing my memoir Late, Late at Night reminded me how much I love the craft. So I decided to give fiction a shot again.Magnificent Vibration is the result. I’m still not quite sure where it came from, but once I got going, it practically wrote itself. I’ve heard writers I admire speak of that phenomenon, so maybe I’m on the right track.”

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

Writing Children Attention Creativity Creative Students Authority Vulnerable Centre Creative Writing

Author:Rachel Cusk

“A creative writing workshop will contain students whose ambitions and abilities, whose conceptions of literature itself, are so diverse that what they have in common - the desire to write - could almost be considered meaningless.”

Writing Desire Literature Ability Common Creative Students Ambition Conception Meaningless Diverse Creative Writing Workshops Writing Workshop

Author:Rachel Cusk

“Here’s what I learned: First thing in the morning, before I have drowned myself in coffee, while I still have that sleepy brain I used to believe was useless — that is the best brain for creative writing. Words come pouring out easily while my head still feels as if it is full of ground fog, wrapped in flannel and gauze, and surrounded by a hive of humming, velvety sleep bees.”

Ifs Feels Writing Firsts Believe Stills Used Sleep Brain Morning Creative Coffee Useless Bees Fog Creative Writing Pouring Sleepy Humming Hives Flannels Writing Words

Author:Merrill Markoe

“Given the devaluation of literature and of the study of foreign languages per se in the United States, as well as the preponderance of theory over text in graduate literature studies, creative writing programs keep literature courses populated.”

Writing Wells States Courses Literature Language Given United United States Creative Study Theory Program Graduates Creative Writing Foreign Language

Author:Marilyn Hacker

“When I write what publishers call 'fantasy' I am writing in what I think is the most important tradition of fiction: starting with Homer and up through Shakespeare and Milton, the most important themes to tackle are those of the mythopoeic domain, tales of the body and mind seen through a temperament and a cosmos divorced from current reality so what is said can be more clear.”

“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.”

Writing Behinds Creative Poet Fine Scene Understood Species Intuition Creative Writing Positively Ecstatic Behind The Scenes Frenzy

Book:Edgar Allan Poe's Complete Poetical Works

Source: Edgar Allan Poe's Complete Poetical Works

“When I read students’ attempts at creative writing it is obvious immediately that most of them have not read much or widely. The aspiring writer must read everything he or she can to appreciate the myriad ways words are used and to what effect.”

Way Writing Used Creative Effects Students Appreciate Obvious Creative Writing Aspiring Writers

Author:Julius Lester

“Writers are not just people who sit down and write. They hazard themselves. Every time you compose a book your composition of yourself is at stake.”

People Writing Book Down And Stakes Composition Creative Writing Hazards Writing Every Day

Author:E. L. Doctorow

“Characters paralyzed by the meaninglessness of modern life still have to drink water from time to time.”

Stills Character Water Modern Drink Creative Writing Modern Life Paralyzed Meaninglessness Drink Water

Book:Kurt Vonnegut: The Last Interview: And Other Conversations

Source: Kurt Vonnegut: The Last Interview: And Other Conversations

“The road to hell is paved with leeks and potatoes”

“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.”

Writing Creative Masters Obsession Covered Creative Writing

Author:Julie Powell

“The maker of a sentence launches out into the infinite.”

Infinite Sentences Makers Creative Writing Written Word

Book:The Laws of Nature: Excerpts from the Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson

Source: The Laws of Nature: Excerpts from the Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson

“You have to give up a great deal of life, your personal life, to be a writer.”

Giving Deals Giving Up Personal Life Creative Writing Whole Truth Creative Writers

Author:Doris Lessing

“As one of my creative writing professors once said, there are only seven plots. What makes those plots different is how you handle them, your voice, your style, and your way of thinking. That’s all. People can mimic your style, but they can never achieve your unique point of view.”

People Thinking Way Writing Said Different Voice Views Creative Achieve Style Unique Seven Point Of View Handle Plot Professors Creative Writing Way Of Thinking

Author:Kristine Kathryn Rusch

“All writing is communication; creative writing is communication through revelation-it is the Self-escaping into the open.”

Writing Self Creative Communication Revelations Creative Writing Escaping

Book:the elements of style

Source: the elements of style

“Creative writing and literacy go hand and hand.”

Writing Hands Creative Literacy Creative Writing

Author:Rita Dove

“Unless you have tested the assumptions in your business model first, outside the building, your business plan is just creative writing.”

Writing Firsts Creative Plans Building Models Assumption Tested Creative Writing Business Models Business Plan

Author:Steve Blank

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

Writing Play Dream Creative Pieces Childhood Substitutes Creative Writing Continuation

Book:Art and literature: Jensen's Gradiva, Leonardo da Vinci and other works

Source: Art and literature: Jensen's Gradiva, Leonardo da Vinci and other works

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