Scholars look for final truths they will never find. Creative writers concern themselves with possibilities that are always there to the receptive.

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

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

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

If you want to communicate, use the telephone

Never write a poem about anything that ought to have a poem written about it.

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.