Creative Writing Quotes https://creativewritingquotes.com Tue, 04 Dec 2018 18:56:53 +0000 en-US hourly 1 105065127 “I love metaphor. It provides two loaves where there seems to be one. Sometimes it throws in a load of fish.” https://creativewritingquotes.com/i-love-metaphor-it-provides-two-loaves-where-there-seems-to-be-one-sometimes-it-throws-in-a-load-of-fish/ Sun, 22 Apr 2018 14:21:16 +0000 http://creativewritingquotes.com/?p=1318 Bernard Malamud

]]> 1318 “In writing I had to say what had happened to me, yet present it as though it had been magically revealed.” https://creativewritingquotes.com/in-writing-i-had-to-say-what-had-happened-to-me-yet-present-it-as-though-it-had-been-magically-revealed/ Sun, 22 Apr 2018 14:19:48 +0000 http://creativewritingquotes.com/?p=1316 Bernard Malamud

]]> 1316 “Writing is a concentrated form of thinking. I don’t know what I think about certain subjects, even today, until I sit down and try to write about them.” https://creativewritingquotes.com/writing-is-a-concentrated-form-of-thinking-i-dont-know-what-i-think-about-certain-subjects-even-today-until-i-sit-down-and-try-to-write-about-them/ Mon, 20 Nov 2017 14:33:15 +0000 http://creativewritingquotes.com/?p=1303 Don DeLillo

]]> 1303 “The heart of the story is usually a place to arrive at, not a place to begin.” https://creativewritingquotes.com/the-heart-of-the-story-is-usually-a-place-to-arrive-at-not-a-place-to-begin/ Sun, 12 Nov 2017 11:59:27 +0000 http://creativewritingquotes.com/?p=1300 Tracy Kidder

]]> 1300 “I think that the nonfiction writer’s fundamental job is to make what is true believable.” https://creativewritingquotes.com/i-think-that-the-nonfiction-writers-fundamental-job-is-to-make-what-is-true-believable/ Sun, 12 Nov 2017 11:58:54 +0000 http://creativewritingquotes.com/?p=1298 Tracy Kidder

]]> 1298 “There is no subject so old that something new cannot be said about it.” https://creativewritingquotes.com/there-is-no-subject-so-old-that-something-new-cannot-be-said-about-it/ Sat, 11 Nov 2017 15:45:21 +0000 http://creativewritingquotes.com/?p=1296 Fyodor Dostoevsky

]]> 1296 “[The writer] cannot put himself today in the service of those who make history; he is at the service of those who suffer it.” https://creativewritingquotes.com/the-writer-cannot-put-himself-today-in-the-service-of-those-who-make-history-he-is-at-the-service-of-those-who-suffer-it/ Tue, 07 Nov 2017 14:22:15 +0000 http://creativewritingquotes.com/?p=1293 Albert Camus

]]> 1293 “[A]lmost all good artists are being worked through with forces that they’re not quite aware of. They are transmitters of sensitivities that they’re not aware of having, of forces that are in the air at the time. I’ve done a lot of things that I’m surprised at now which show a lot of knowledge that I didn’t have or knew I had. I can now learn something from my own pictures.” https://creativewritingquotes.com/almost-all-good-artists-are-being-worked-through-with-forces-that-theyre-not-quite-aware-of-they-are-transmitters-of-sensitivities-that-theyre-not-aware-of-having-of-for/ Fri, 03 Nov 2017 16:02:36 +0000 http://creativewritingquotes.com/?p=1291 Walker Evans

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