Don't write love poems when you're in love. Write them when you're not in love.

You owe reality nothing and the truth about your feelings everything.

A creative writing class may be one of the last places you can go where your life still matters.

Assuming you can write clear English sentences, give up all worry about communication. If you want to communicate, use the telephone.

Maximum sentence length: seventeen words. Minimum:one No semicolons. Semicolons indicate relationships that only idiots need defined by punctuation. Besides, they are ugly. Make sure each sentence is at least four words longer or shorter than the one before it.

If you want to communicate, use the telephone

A good creative-writing teacher can save a good writer a lot of time.