Awful Quote by Catherynne M. Valente

I hate it when something I've had published "inspires" some nut to imitate what I've written, or some teacher gets fired for having her…

— Richard Matheson

I wrote about a bird that cleaned a crocodile's teeth. The story was so good that my teacher could not believe that a ten-year-old…

— Brian Jacques

When I started writing, I thought nobody would understand the things that I liked. Then I began getting a lot of letters from people…

— Novala Takemoto

I never lose sight of the fact that before I was a writer, I was a teacher. I still am. My classroom's just gotten…

— Jodi Picoult

I'm not a writer who teaches. I'm a teacher who writes.

— Maya Angelou

I was fortunate to have many teachers who encouraged me - one of the first was Dianne Derrick, my 5th grade teacher at Woodbury…

— Celeste Ng

I wrote all the time, and I had teachers who encouraged it.

— Jacqueline Woodson

I was a better writer when I was teaching. I was constantly going over the basics and constantly reminding myself, as I reminded my…

— Gil Scott-Heron

I hate writing. I almost never write. I write against deadlines. And when I'm teaching, I'm focused on that.

— Edmund White

I started writing in fourth grade and never stopped. I faked my way through high school and nearly was flushed from college - I…

— W. Bruce Cameron

When I teach, I try to assign writers from whom I can learn.

— Tom Barbash