Creative Writing - Elements of Creative Writing

Famous quotes containing the words elements of, elements, creative and/or writing:

“But all subsists by elemental strife;
And Passions are the elements of Life.”
—Alexander Pope (1688–1744)

“In spite of all their kind some elements of worth
With difficulty persist here and there on earth.”
—Hugh MacDiarmid (1892–1978)

“Families are great murderers of the creative impulse, particularly husbands.”
—Brenda Ueland (1891–1985)

“Such writing is a sort of mental masturbation.... I don’t mean that he is indecent but viciously soliciting his own ideas into a state which is neither poetry nor anything else but a Bedlam vision produced by raw pork and opium.”
—George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)