I never was a big believer that you can teach writing per…

I don't teach writing. I teach patience. Toughness. Stubbornness. The willingness to fail. I teach the life. The odd thing is most of the…

— Richard Bausch

G.K. Chesterton once said: If something is worth doing, it is worth doing badly. I live by this philosophy when I teach writing. It…

— Ralph Fletcher

“But you can't teach writing, people tell me. And I say, 'Who the hell are you, God's dean of admissions?”

— Anne Lamott

When I teach writing, I have a mantra: 'Be a first-rate version of yourself, and not a second-rate version of another writer.'

— David Morrell

I've been trying to write. I also spent a lot of time on different campuses, in conversation, helping other writers. That's what I do:…

— Junot Diaz

People say you can't teach writing, but I think that's nonsense.

— Tracy Kidder

No one can teach writing, but classes may stimulate the urge to write. If you are born a writer, you will inevitably and helplessly…

— Cynthia Ozick

It's much easier to teach writing, because people are less shy about writing. If they're in a group, nobody can see what they're writing.…

— Lynda Barry

I don't know much about creative writing programs. But they're not telling the truth if they don't teach, one, that writing is hard work,…

— Doris Lessing

People say you cant teach writing, but I think thats nonsense.

— Tracy Kidder

When I teach writing, I always tell my students you should assume that the audience you're writing for is smarter than you. You can't…

— Tony Kushner

I would love to see writing taught online because at university like Yale, there are not enough teachers who are able to teach writing…

— David Gelernter

I teach writing courses and first of all, I teach my students what prosody is.

— Theodore Sturgeon

I don't teach writing classes anymore, and I'm really glad I don't, because I would feel very strange about telling people, 'Go out there…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

As a professor I can't teach writing.

— Peter Orner