When students write from experience, they can breathe…

I always tell my students to write the story all the way through, not to play with the language and fall in love with…

— Molly Antopol

“I tell my students that when you write, you should pretend you’re writing the best letter you ever wrote to the smartest friend you…

— Jeffrey Eugenides

I used to tell my writing students that they must write the books they wished they could come upon - because then the books…

— Anne Lamott

I try to tell student writers to read as much as possible, not only literature but philosophy, theory, and to form obsessions. There's a…

— Kate Zambreno

“Each newcomer feels obliged to do something else, forgetting that if he himself is somebody he will necessarily do that something else," said Valéry.…

— Richard Hugo

The crudest thing I've done as a teacher was to require students to write a national anthem for their country and sing it themselves.

— Chris Van Allsburg

I tell my students that when you write, you should pretend you’re writing the best letter you ever wrote to the smartest friend you…

— Jeffrey Eugenides

“Let students write down or discuss answers in pairs before discussing as a class.”

— Rachael Roberts

The only really good piece of advice I have for my students is, 'Write something you'd never show your mother or father. And you…

— Lorrie Moore

When I taught a civil rights class at the University of Maryland Law School, I would do an exercise with my students. I'd write…

— Tom Perez

The academic bias against subjectivity not only forces our students to write poorly ("It is believed...," instead of, "I believe..."), it deforms their thinking…

— Parker J. Palmer

I suggest to my students that they write under a pseudonym for a week. That allows young men to write as women, and women…

— Joyce Carol Oates

I do bring my teaching together with my writing. I make students write in class, and do the same prompts I give them. I'm…

— Allison Joseph

“It's all right, I want to say to the students who write to me, for things to be what they appear to be, and…

— Eudora Welty

“...why is it that, in creative writing courses today, the very first thing we teach students is write what you know? Perhaps that's not…

— Elif Shafak