Creative Writing Quotes

Poetry isn’t an island, it is the bridge. Poetry isn’t a ship, it is the lifeboat. Poetry isn’t swimming. Poetry is water.

Because at nightwhen others are sleeping, I drown myself in poetry.

I seek to take my audience on an emotional roller-coaster ride, a journey of laughter and tears and every sentiment in between.

Eyesight can be so blinding. We need to look beyond the face of things.

Giving these students, teenagers, any form of power over the use of their own words, allowing them to turn everyday raw material into some form of beauty, is a gift beyond measure.

If you criticize what you’re doing too early you’ll never write the first li

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.

Writing is the high alchemy of the soul that combines words and ideas to create magic.

Does any (MFA) program really improve anybody, as much as simply identifying them? And, after identifying them, not ruining them?

Create a character with an obsession, then follow.

Writing fiction is one of the greatest forms of empathy. It's not enough to simply write from the perspective of your characters...you have to feel what they feel.

For every writer, there is a challenge of time that is only magnified in the solitude of the work.

You may be a poet and not even know it.

She might not have read many books. But when she reads a book, she swallows the very words. If you open the books on her shelves, you will find that the front and back covers encase white pages.

Creativity is the brain's invisible muscle -- that when used and excercised routinely -- becomes better and stronger.

Walk with the Creator on the face of earth.

In writing there is art - and in art there is craft ...

In writing, there is art. And in art, there is craft ...

You can work to create a bright future.

Every kingdom has three pillars: Poet, Sword and Law.

Write to Say something, Say to Make something, Make to Be something.

All stories are the sin of their weaver.

It’s despicable of an author to kill his main personage solely for stirring imagination of indifferent or mean minds.

Without us, in other words, there can never be hope of a We.

Every time you go to see Hamlet you don't expect it to have a happy ending...you're still enthralled.(Interview BBC Radio 4 Today 17 October 2012.)