Ability Quote by Andre Dubus

I see myself only sporadically as a teacher and consistently as a writer. Teaching is how I pay the bills...and fortunately, for my students,…

— Vijay Seshadri

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

As a writer, the ideal job is the one that allows you time and mental space away from it. Teaching seemed to me like…

— Debra Dean

Teaching is all armchair. I learn about writing by writing and thinking about what I've written and throwing it away.

— Ben Marcus

The core of my career is my teaching and my writing.

— Elizabeth Warren

After I started publishing poetry I got to teach creative writing. Eventually I was promoted and even got tenure. But then I felt compelled…

— Joan Larkin

I come to writing the same way I come to teaching, which is that my goal is always to create life-long readers.

— Rick Riordan

I don't really think of writing as a career. It's something that happened to me. By working harder than I knew it was possible…

— Susan Cheever

In general, teaching writing makes me a far better reader because there's so many ways to write a good sentence or a good story,…

— Leni Zumas

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

I loved reading and writing, and teaching was the most exalted profession I could imagine.

— Frank McCourt