Education Quote by Alison Hawthorne Deming

Teaching is a great complement to writing. It's very social and gets you out of your own head. It's also very optimistic. It renews…

— Eleanor Catton

Teaching was great for me, because I got to show people how writing can really change the way you see not only yourself but…

— Sarah Dessen

Writing fiction is a resolutely solitary pastime, and I love being with people, so the public side of being an author is, to me,…

— Julia Glass

For me, writing started as pleasure that became professionalized, so my relationship to it is a bit sullied. I'm working it out.

— Katrina Onstad

“A deep level of personal engagement is key to good writing and complete immersion by the writer will translate into a richer and more…

— Nidhie Sharma

Ever since I was a kid, I have loved writing. It has always been one of my passions.

— Natalya Neidhart

Teaching well draws from the same well that writing draws from: the reserves of compassion and ability to listen and concentrate on another. So…

— Andre Dubus

I've always loved writing. It was always what I wanted to do.

— David Thewlis

Writing gives me the opportunity to explore ideas, play with language, solve problems, use my imagination, and draw on my own childhood.

— Jack Prelutsky

I love writing and do not know why it is considered such a difficult, agonizing profession. I love all of it, thinking up the…

— Caroline B. Cooney

A sustained engagement with the world, a sense of how it was and how it ought to be, and what has been lost, is…

— Pankaj Mishra

Writing was something I have always been interested in. I've grown up in a household full of books, with both my parents English teachers…

— Alexandra Adornetto