Ruthie will help you write it.” There. Problem solved…

In Indonesia, I had spent two years at a Muslim school, two years at a Catholic school. In the Muslim school, the teacher wrote…

— Barack Obama

I got a alot of forigenier at my school so alot knowns different language. One of my teacher is one she Korean or something…

— MrCountry

Because my parents were American missionaries who sent me to public schools in rural Japan, I had to confront Hiroshima as a child. I…

— Linda Hoaglund

I was worried that, as a college teacher, if I wrote too much about intergenerational sex my students would be creeped out.

— Dan Chaon

Regardless of the criticisms I receive from the left, the right and the middle, I think it's important to maintain a prolific writing jab,…

— Ishmael Reed

Gratitude isn't just a feeling, it's an action. Expressing gratitude by writing in a journal, taking a photo, or shooting a video creates a…

— Janice Kaplan

I would drink gallons of coffee a day. Even now, off caffeine, I talk faster than anyone you've ever met. I finally recognized that…

— Nathan Englander

The love religion is all that is written here.

— Rumi

Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who…

— Andrew Lang

If what I write is literature, I guess you'd better emphasize the 'litter.'

— Lydia Lunch

Forcing modern speakers of English to not - whoops, not to split an infinitive because it isn't done in Latin makes about as much…

— Steven Pinker

Histories never conclude; they just pause their prose. Their stories are, if they are truthful, untidy affairs, resistant to windings-up and sortings-out. They beat…

— Simon Schama

I feel like the future is unwritten. So many of the things that we write now haven't been about educating people on the environment,…

— John Flansburgh

I wanted to write about voodoo tradition that I feel has been very important to survival of black people here: people of the African…

— Jesmyn Ward

When I passed the Chancellor he arose, waved his hand at me, and I waved back at him. I think the writers showed bad…

— Jesse Owens