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creative writing

Noun

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The art of writing texts such as novels, short stories and poems which fall outside the bounds of professional, journalistic, academic and technical discourse.

Such texts generally.

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Creative writing programmes are not very necessary. They just exist so that people like us can make a living. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Here is a lesson in creative writing. First rule: Do not use semicolons. They are transvestite hermaphrodites representing absolutely nothing. All they do is show you've been to college. Kurt Vonnegut

One must be an inventor to read well. There is then creative reading as well as creative writing. Ralph Waldo Emerson

I am an English major in school with an emphasis in creative writing. I think hearing Maya Angelou speak at school last year was one of the best moments Stanford, at least, intellectually, had to offer. Fred Savage

Poetry is something that happens in universities, in creative writing programs or in English departments. Mark Strand

When I went to college I took a creative writing class and decided in a week to be a writer. David Guterson

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