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I teach one semester a year, and this year I'm just teaching one course during that semester, a writing workshop for older…
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Everything has to be pulling weight in a short story for it to be really of the first order.
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Our memories tell us who we are and they cannot be achieved through committee work, by consulting other people about what happened.…
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Reasons always came with a purpose, to give the appearance of a struggle between principle and desire. Principle had power only until…
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You felt it as a depth of ease in certain boys, their innate, affable assurance that they would not have to struggle…
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The very act of writing assumes, to begin with, that someone cares to hear what you have to say. It assumes that…
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Time, which is your enemy in almost everything in this life, is your friend in writing.
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There’s no right way to tell all stories, only the right way to tell a particular story.
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I try to help people become the best possible editors of their own work, to help them become conscious of the things…
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One can imagine a world without essays. It would be a little poorer, of course, like a world without chess, but one…
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Had he learned nothing from all those years of teaching Hawthorne? Through story after story he'd led his boys to consider the…
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You have to be kind of clued into them, they are a world of their own, and most people find them disappointing…
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I would rather teach one man to pray than ten men to preach.
— Charles Spurgeon
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I teach one thing and one only: that is, suffering and the end of suffering.
— Gautama Buddha
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I teach one semester a year, and this year I'm just teaching one course during that semester, a writing workshop for older…
— Tobias Wolff
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The church exists primarily for two closely correlated purposes: to worship God and to work for his kingdom in the world ...…
— N. T. Wright
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The junior high schools and high schools of America have forgotten to teach one of the most important courses of all. Investing.
— Peter Lynch
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To tell a lie in cowardice, to tell a lie for gain, or to avoid deserved punishment-are all the blackest of black…
— Emily Post
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If universities want to save a little money, they ought to make some cutbacks in administration and in faculty people who teach…
— Bobby Knight
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To teach one who has no curiosity to learn, is to sow a field without ploughing it.
— Richard Whately
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All religions teach one basic discipline - the removal from the mind of the blemish of egoism, of running after little joys.
— Sathya Sai Baba
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There's nothing like a debate to teach one quickness. I often wish I had gone in for them when I was a…
— E. M. Forster
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The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character - that is the…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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I don't know much about creative writing programs. But they're not telling the truth if they don't teach, one, that writing is…
— Doris Lessing
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