Basics Quote by Gil Scott-Heron

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

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

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

I've learned a lot as a writer about poetry.

— Jacqueline Woodson

I was almost teaching myself through writing without even realizing it. It's like therapy. You can hear my progression as a person and how…

— Bea Miller

Memorizing the work of others definitely made me a better writer.

— James Arthur

Even though I was a reluctant reader in junior high and high school, I found myself writing poems in the back of class.

— Matt de la Pena

I didn't write anything at all except book reports until I was in seventh grade, and then I wrote mostly poetry for myself.

— Cynthia Voigt

In teaching writing, I'm learning new things about writing.

— David B. Coe

I've always written. When I was in school, the only teacher who ever liked me was my creative writing teacher. I used to enter…

— Justin Townes Earle

I enjoyed writing stories whenever there was call to do it at school, and started writing bad poetry when I was doing my GCSEs…

— Tom Fletcher

... to write well it is entirely necessary to read widely and deeply. Good poems are the best teachers.

— Mary Oliver