Class Quote by Alan Lightman

It used to be that you would go into a writing program and what you would learn was how to write a short story.…

— Lorin Stein

There is a whole industry in America of people who want to write, and those who teach it. Even if the students don't end…

— Edmund White

As every writer knows... there is something mysterious about the writer's ability, on any given day, to write. When the juices are flowing, or…

— Anonymous

I am always interested in why young people become writers, and from talking with many I have concluded that most do not want to…

— James A. Michener

I always talk to my students about the need to write for the joy of writing. I try to sort of disaggregate the acclaim…

— Kim Edwards

Young writers take themselves very seriously in college.

— Kyle Kinane

Many writers can't make a living. So to be able to teach how to write is valuable to them. But I don't really know…

— Chinua Achebe

“Young writers find out what kinds of writers they are by experiment. If they choose from the outset to practice exclusively a form of…

— John McPhee

Undergraduate writers seem to be, in a way, more open to letting themselves just write.

— David Means

Writing is nagging, fascinating, troublesome and exciting.

— Mani Ratnam

I've had many students over the years, sometimes even very sophisticated students, who will be writing and will hit a wall. Often I find…

— T.C. Boyle

It's very hard to find good and wholesome, edifying and challenging writing for the students to perform. In my classroom I strive to do…

— Patricia Mauceri