In fact, the very phrase "teaching creative writing" sounds to me oxymoronic. How can you teach someone to be creative?

I find that biographical material holds me back, hampers my creative process, cramps my imagination.

I must say that, on the whole, I prefer fiction to poetry.

How can you teach someone to be creative? You have to create yourself.

Imagination is so much more fertile than life.

It is true that I didn't write any poetry between 1995 and 2011. The reason for this was probably because I had stayed away from fiction for so long and couldn't tear myself away from it.

Except for the usual house chores, doing income tax, etc., I am free to write whenever I want.

That is one more reason why I write in English only right now. I prefer writing in the language I hear around me for the people by whom I am surrounded.

I think I view myself primarily as a fiction writer. Poetry is more of a "hobby," a time of rest from the hard work of writing fiction.

In books I have traveled, not only to other worlds, but into my own.

The care of human life and happiness, and their destruction is the first and only legitimate object of a good government.

Your trials and difficulties are a golden opportunity for joy.

Everything they've said is tainted now. Every day was a lie.

I CLOSED MY EYES AND PRETENDED SHE WAS YOU. illutions- aprilynne pike

Age can be wonderful for red wine, but not for spacecraft.

Always be skeptical about simplicity.

I begin indeed to fear that I have undertaken an impossibility, undertaken to tell what I cannot tell because no speech at my command will fit the forms in my mind.

To give someone a blessing is the most significant affirmation we can offer.

The nations that offer to arbitrate are the ones that think they should rule the world.