Authority Quote by Emily Barton

Teaching and writing, to me, is really just seduction; you go to where people are and you find something that they're interested in and…

— Lawrence M. Krauss

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

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

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

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

— Tom Barbash

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

The problems that other writers encounter are so fascinating to me as a writer and as a thinker about writing. I have found that…

— Emily Barton

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

— Ben Marcus

“In some ways the goals of teaching and writing are the same. You hope to connect to someone else, to make them care about…

— P.F. Kluge

My students - all adults - bring a lot of writing skill to the first class, and they and I get better as the…

— James Thayer

Teaching and writing are separate, but serve/feed one another in so many ways. Writing travels the road inward, teaching, the road out - helping…

— Naomi Shihab Nye

Teaching well draws from the same well that writing draws from: the reserves of compassion and ability to listen and concentrate on another. So…

— Andre Dubus