Benefits Quote by Gregory Pardlo

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

— Ben Marcus

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

My teaching forces me to articulate what I think works in a piece of fiction and how I think it works. All of that…

— Dana Spiotta

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

— David B. Coe

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

— Chinua Achebe

It's all the same for me, how I teach, how I write, how I think.

— Paul Beatty

I enjoy writing and directing a lot. For a long time, I was dabbling in many different things. I've been thinking of an analogy,…

— Pauline Chalamet

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

— Tom Barbash

For me, reading books and writing them are tied together. The words of other writers teach me and refresh me and inspire me.

— Betsy Byars

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 primarily write nonfiction. Research, reflection, and spending time with ideas are important to me. So, this is how I spend most of my…

— Adam Morris

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