“I'm often asked how I write books, but I don't think my approach is suitable for everyone. If I walked into a creative writing class, all I could say to them was 'I tend to make it up as I go along.' I'm not sure that's brilliant advice.” IfsThinkingWritingBookClassCreativeAdviceApproachBrilliantNot SureCreative WritingSuitable Author:Ian Rankin
“I was a journalism major, and I would take creative writing classes as part of that, but I would also look for opportunities to write stories for some of my other classes. So for my course in Scandinavian history, I asked if I could write historical fiction instead of term papers. Sometimes they’d say yes.” IfsWritingLooksSometimesStoriesCoursesOpportunityTermFictionClassCreativePaperMajorsHistoricalJournalismIf I CouldHistorical FictionPapersCreative WritingScandinaviansTerm Paper Author:George R. R. Martin
“Through the wholesale destruction of the representatives of a class that from the beginning of history had been the directing and creative force in civilization, a process began which was almost mechanical.” ForceProcessClassCreativeCivilizationDestructionRepresentativesWholesale Book:TOWARDS THE GREAT PEACE Source: TOWARDS THE GREAT PEACE
“For loving, working, and creative people to throw off the yoke of power it is necessary to abolish power itself, not merely to make the yoke comfortable. Where some have power, others do not, and the two classes persist. A free society is where all have power-power over and responsibility for their own lives, power and reason to respect the lives of others. This is also a society without classes, a society of human beings, not rulers and the ruled.” PeopleHumansTwoReasonHuman BeingsResponsibilityClassCreativeComfortableRulersPersistCreative PeopleFree SocietyAbolishLives Of OthersYoke Book:Dear America Source: Dear America
“Most of the people dishing out judgment have no working experience of the theatre, have not written a professional play, a sketch, or even a joke; have never worked in a theatre, taken an acting class, or published any extended piece of work. They are creative virgins; everything they know about theatre is book-learned and second-hand.” PeopleKnowsBookPlayHandsActingClassCreativeTakenPiecesWrittenJudgmentJokesTheatreVirginsSecond HandActing Classes Author:John Lahr
“I flew into a small airport surrounded by cornfields and pastures, ready to carry out the two commands my father had written out for me the night before I left Calcutta: Spend two years studying creative writing at the Iowa Writers Workshop, then come back home and marry the bridegroom he selected for me from our caste and class.” WritingYearsTwoHomeNightFatherLeftClassCreativeStudyWrittenReadyCommandTwo YearsAirportsCreative WritingFlewBack HomeSelectedWorkshopsIowaCastesCalcuttaPasturesBridegroomWriting Workshop Author:Bharati Mukherjee
“I took a couple of creative writing classes with Joyce Carol Oates at Princeton University, and in my senior year there, I took a long fiction workshop with Toni Morrison. I fell in love with it.” WritingYearsLongFictionClassCreativeCoupleUniversitySeniorCreative WritingWorkshopsCarolsJoycePrincetonSenior YearPrinceton University Author:Mohsin Hamid
“A truly vibrant and creative culture depends on a system of education which is not divided along class and sectarian lines.” CultureLinesClassCreativeDependsDivided Author:Tom Paulin
“Learn as much as you can about performing. Live theater, improv classes, music, stand up comedy, dance, anything to make yourself confident and comfortable in front of an audience. It'll all come in handy when auditioning for producers and performing with other actors. The best voice actors all have a live performance background. And are competent, fearless, incredibly creative actors.” ActorsVoiceClassAudienceCreativeComedyFrontsComfortablePerformancesTheaterBackgroundsProducersFearlessPerformingCompetentHandyStand Up ComedySelf ConfidentLive PerformanceLive TheaterPerforming Live Author:Rob Paulsen
“People didn't know certain things about me, which... I was out of creative writing class in school, Syracuse University; had a B.A. in English and wanted to write the great American novel but I also loved rock and roll. I was in bar bands all through college, playing fraternities and have to know all the songs in the top 10. That kind of thing.” PeopleKnowsWritingKindWantedSchoolCertainSongClassNovelCreativeRocksCollegeBandUniversityBarsRock And RollCreative WritingGreat AmericanFraternityTop 10SyracuseClasses In School Author:Lou Reed
“The ruling class is smarter than you, and they're more creative. And if you forget that lesson, you go down the drain. Because if they weren't, they wouldn't be around as long as they have been and as strong as they have been.” IfsLongHas BeensStrongForgetClassCreativeLessonsSmarterRulingDrains Author:Al Lewis
“The books people are writing today, they're too long. You get a little bit of plot, and then pages and pages of Creative Writing. They teach classes in how to do this. They should teach classes in how to stop!” PeopleShouldWritingLittlesLongBookTodayBitsClassTeachCreativeLittle BitPagesPlotCreative Writing Author:Douglas Adams
“Building new connections is a critical part of building a new economy. The American education system, as flawed as it is, is great for the creative class because of the way it mixes up networks.” WayClassEconomyCreativeBuildingConnectionsCriticalFlawedEducation SystemAmerican EducationAmerican Education System Author:danah boyd
“We really had the whole piece laid out in like a Word file, just from beginning to end. It was kind of more like your creative-writing class in school. You know, you have the outline and then you just kind of plug the stuff in the little map you've made.” KnowsWritingKindLittlesMadeEndsWholeSchoolStuffClassCreativePiecesLike YouMapsCreative WritingFilesOutlinesPlugsClasses In School Author:Crowder