Creative Writing Quotes - Page 9

• Literary genres and techniques tend to take form in one's mind somewhat the way computer templates provide form for different computer tasks.

  Aberjhani

  Literary Genre, Intelligence, Mind

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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.

  Janet Morris

  Book, Heart, Technology

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• 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.

  Aberjhani

  Love, Spiritual, Writing

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

  Richard Hugo

  Teaching, Writing, Class

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• No author dislikes to be edited as much as he dislikes not to be published.

  Russell Lynes

  Art, Writing, Editing

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• 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.

  Janet Morris

  Book, Writing, Unique

  Interview with Michael A. Ventrella, michaelaventrella.com. May 15, 2012.

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• 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.

  Fred Savage

  Writing, School, Thinking

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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.

  Pat Pattison

  Writing, Support, Creative

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• We have always learned about life by dramatising our questions.

  Celia Brayfield

  Writing, Creative

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• 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.

  Robert McKee

  Writing, Play, Imagination

  Robert McKee (2010). “Story: Style, Structure, Substance, and the Principles of Screenwriting”, p.10, Harper Collins

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

  Ayn Rand

  Writing, Creative, Fundamentals

  Ayn Rand (2000). “The Art of Fiction: A Guide for Writers and Readers”, p.21, Penguin

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• 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.

  Ayn Rand

  Book, Writing, Giving

  Ayn Rand (2000). “The Art of Fiction: A Guide for Writers and Readers”, p.22, Penguin

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• The fact is that I write under duress, often in my bed, often at the last minute. I'm kind of a binge writer I would say, which I don't support. I was always kind of that way. Probably the time I was the most regular as a writer was college. It was like, what else is there to do when you're living in the Midwest studying creative writing?

  Lena Dunham

  Writing, College, Support

  "Lena Dunham: 'I write under duress, often in my bed, often at the last minute'" by Alice Driver, www.salon.com. December 27, 2013.

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• 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.

  Crowder

  Writing, School, Class

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• I haven't taught creative writing all that much (my CW teaching consists of a few summer workshops for elementary school children and an eight-week class for older adults), and I don't really know what my teaching style is yet.

  Mary J. Miller

  Summer, Children, Teaching

  Source: therumpus.net

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