Teaching writing puts you on the point of a pin in terms of what you want your own writing to be. — Jane Alison Copy Share Image
I'm not actually teaching any more, but I am writing pieces for schools all the time, and for kids. — Peter Maxwell Davies Copy Share Image
Teaching and writing about philosophy is about the only thing I've ever been really good at. — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
Because I don't have to be careful of people's feelings when I teach literature, and I do when I'm teaching writing. — Tobias Wolff Copy Share Image
I think I've become more like my mom just because of what we're both interested in, children and teaching and writing. — Jenna Bush Copy Share Image
“In some ways the goals of teaching and writing are the same. You hope to connect to someone else, to make them… — P.F. Kluge Copy Share Image
At DePauw, I was teaching writing and fiction. The things I wanted to teach, more than anything else, were form and theory… — Nic Pizzolatto Copy Share Image
Teaching and writing have tended to proceed on parallel lines, but there have been times when there was indeed carry-over from the… — Adam Kirsch Copy Share Image
In general, teaching writing makes me a far better reader because there's so many ways to write a good sentence or a… — Leni Zumas Copy Share Image
Teaching writing over the years intrudes on your own writing in important ways, taking away some of the excitement of poetry. — Robert Morgan Copy Share Image
There are plenty of paths to becoming a writer, but I think the most reliable ones involve total commitment: writing for magazines… — Chris Pavone Copy Share Image
Teaching and writing, to me, is really just seduction; you go to where people are and you find something that they're interested… — Lawrence M. Krauss Copy Share Image
Before I got my present job, I spent many years teaching writing part-time, so-called, at community colleges and universities. It's academia's version… — Debra Dean Copy Share Image
“(on teaching writing) So many writers come to class with one question dominant in their mind, 'How do I make a living… — Celine Kiernan Copy Share Image
If success in selling is my primary interest, I am not primarily a writer, but a salesperson. If I teach success in… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Teaching and writing, really, they support and nourish each other, and they foster good thinking. Because when you show up in the… — Emily Barton Copy Share Image
I'm not Pollyanna - I know that my personality and my opinions and how I approach the teaching of writing maybe isn't… — Tod Goldberg Copy Share Image
Teaching well draws from the same well that writing draws from: the reserves of compassion and ability to listen and concentrate on… — Andre Dubus Copy Share Image
Over time I learned that there are two very different satisfactions that you can have in your life. One is the satisfaction… — Atul Gawande Copy Share Image
Teaching and writing are separate, but serve/feed one another in so many ways. Writing travels the road inward, teaching, the road out… — Naomi Shihab Nye Copy Share Image
I do bring my teaching together with my writing. I make students write in class, and do the same prompts I give… — Allison Joseph Copy Share Image
