There were creative-writin g teachers long before there were creative-…

Kurt Vonnegut
638 citations
There were creative-writin g teachers long before there were creative-writin g courses, and they were called and continue to be called editors.
Time
31

More Author Quotes

there i was in late middle age, cut loose in a thoroughly looted, bankrupt nation whose assets had been sold off to foreigners, a nation swamped by unchecked plagues and superstition and illiteracy a … ▶
A book is an arrangement of twenty-six phonetic symbols, ten numerals, and about eight punctuation marks, and people can cast their eyes over these and envision the eruption of Mount Vesuvius or the … ▶
You know — we've had to imagine the war here, and we have imagined that it was being fought by aging men like ourselves. We had forgotten that wars were fought by babies. When I saw those freshly sha … ▶
To whom it may concern: It is springtime. It is late afternoon.
I pity the Jews trying to get through life with only half a Bible. That's like trying to get from here to San Francisco with a road map that stops at Dubuque, Iowa. ✨ Kurt Vonnegut (1997). Hocus Pocu … ▶

There were creative-writin g teachers long before there were creative-writin g courses, and they were called and continue to be called editors.

More Author Quotes

Most Cited Authors

The Best Quotes

Most Liked Authors

Curated Author Quotes