Allan Guthrie Quotes

All experience helps when you write.

The best way to learn about writing is to study the work of other writers you admire.

I was a better writer when I was teaching. I was constantly going over the basics and constantly reminding myself, as I reminded my students, what made a good story, a good poem.

You don't teach information in a writing workshop.

I'm not a very good writer. I'm working at it.

Read the kinds of things you want to write; read the kinds of things you would never write. Learn something from every writer you read.

The MFA program did one great thing for me: It taught me how to be a better reader and critic. Nothing I wrote during my time at Columbia remains - but learning how to really deconstruct a work of fiction - that, of course, is a permanent part of me now.

I've taken every writing class I've had available. I took classes in high school, and I took English and writing classes in community college, but I dropped out of college. I also attended a local writing workshop two years ago.

'EIla Enchanted' began in a marvelous writing course at New York City's The New School.

If I did anything 'next', I would do writing.

I'm very happy with the way I write. I think I do it good. But I've never really considered myself a writer.

I taught writing classes at the University of Pennsylvania for a number of years and I realized that all you can do is encourage people and give them assignments and hope they will write them.

I had never taken creative writing classes. Hadn't even considered it.

Doing interesting things and then writing about them is the best way to become a good writer.

I took a couple of creative writing classes with Joyce Carol Oates at Princeton University, and in my senior year there, I took a long fiction workshop with Toni Morrison. I fell in love with it.

My first true lesson in writing came from Mr. Bowden when I was 16. At my high school, he was the teacher known to be the very best at literature and writing.

I'm a great believer in the experiential theory of writing.

But, if there's any aspect of my career that needs attention, it's writing.

I, personally, have found reading a continual support to writing.

I started trying to write when I was in second or third grade.

Nothing teaches great writing like the very best books do. Yet, good teachers often help students cross that bridge, and I have to say that I had a few extraordinary English teachers in high school whom I still credit for their guidance.

I have come to understand and appreciate writers much more recently since I started working on a book last fall. Before that, I thought golf writers got up every morning, played a round of golf, had lunch, showed up for our last three holes and then went to dinner.

I've always enjoyed writing, I graduated with a degree in English; I've done bits of journalism.

A creative writing workshop will contain students whose ambitions and abilities, whose conceptions of literature itself, are so diverse that what they have in common - the desire to write - could almost be considered meaningless.

Read a ton. Take a workshop course so you learn to give and get criticism.