Top Creative Writing Quotes

See the world anew and write down the bones of it.

These poems are cupsthat I pour my life into.Here, Drink!

Creativity is a magic wand that works two ways. When you set it in action and seek to create something, it does not just brings into existence that object or work, it also raises in your heart a dream...

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

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

I only wrote prose before I met you. My musings were superfluous and serious as well. But now the words dance with me. I sing with them and we create poetry.

Dance above the surface of the world. Let your thoughts lift you into creativity that is not hampered by opinion.

What is it about us lady authors and our fascination for the exclamation mark?

You may be a poet and not even know it.

It comes a point in which you don't know if you write books or the books write you

If you criticize what you’re doing too early you’ll never write the first line.[

If you think there is no time to write now, there would never be.

You can work to create a bright future.

I came to pen another poem for you, but even every unwritten poem is you.

When I used to teach creative writing, I would tell the students to make their characters want something right away - even if it's only a glass of water. Characters paralyzed by the meaninglessness of...

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.

The first problem of any kind of even limited success is the unshakable conviction that you are getting away with something, and that at any moment now they will discover you. It's Imposter Syndrome,...

It is a dangerous thing to substitute reading or writing for living. Live first, then write.

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.

Art is the overflow of emotion into action.