Character Quote by Ann Patchett

“Not many people know how to make letters like this," he says. "Do you ever teach anyone?" "Only once," I say.”

— Ally Condie

I was a PE teacher, and when you teach, you can say, 'You have to do this.' It's an order. That's one way. Or…

— Rafael Benitez

When I ask teachers why they teach, they almost always say that it is because they want to make a difference in the lives…

— Arne Duncan

“Writing can be taught or learned in the vacuum. We must say to students in every area of knowledge: "This is a how other…

— William Zinsser

I think a lot of what goes into writing can be taught - not mixing metaphors, etc.

— Lydia Davis

I think some aspects of writing can be taught. Obviously, you can't teach vision or talent. But you can help with comfort.

— Toni Morrison

In a lot of ways, TV writing taught me how to be a good storyteller. I learned about dialogue, scenes, moving the plot forward.

— Maria Semple

Poets are immersed in process, and I mean process not as an amorphous blur but as a discipline. The hard work of writing has…

— Kathleen Norris

“Writing has taught me that the frontier isn’t always a place. Sometimes it’s a season of your life. The space between who you were…

— Dustin Lee

“It is my personal belief that writing cannot be taught.”

— Parnell Hall

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

If writing has taught me anything, it's that you don't actually understand anything until you can express it in words.

— Kevin Bleyer