Education Quote by Dana Spiotta

I get a lot of energy from making things up, which is why I feel I'm a novelist.

— Hisham Matar

On top of whatever else I'm doing, I'm usually teaching some form of composition. The benefit of this is I get to read across…

— Gregory Pardlo

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

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

Good writing gives energy, whatever it is about.

— Marilyn Hacker

I like to think about the genre, the essay or the memoir, as much as I enjoy writing within its fluid parameters. And teaching…

— Jill Talbot

What I teach is literary criticism and comparative literature and so on and that's my function, but from time to time it's possible for…

— Wole Soyinka

I teach literature. That's easy for me. Take someone else's work and talk about it.

— Chinua Achebe

I think everything you are, everything that engages you, eventually comes to bear on the novel you write. I think the creative energy in…

— Francisco Goldman

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

— Tom Barbash

When I write, I work off of a theme, an emotion, a narrative - thinking of it and then expounding on it.

— Chance The Rapper

I get to use fiction as a way to work out my thinking and to delight readers in the process. I can't think of…

— Ken Liu