I have always enjoyed literature classes, and I took a…

“Off and on for many years, I tried to write a book about my childhood. I’d bring chapters to workshop, to writing group, and…

— Heather Sellers

I took a couple of creative writing classes with Joyce Carol Oates at Princeton University, and in my senior year there, I took a…

— Mohsin Hamid

“EVERY WEDNESDAY, I teach an introductory fiction workshop at Harvard University, and on the first day of class I pass out a bullet-pointed list…

— Bret Anthony Johnston

In literature classes, you don't learn about genes; in physics classes you don't learn about human evolution. So you get a fragmented view of…

— David Christian

I was always drawn to teachers who made class interesting. In high school, I enjoyed my American and English literature classes because my teachers,…

— Ellen Ochoa

The first time I took a fiction writing class was sophomore year. And I just found myself taking that extremely seriously, in a way…

— John Brandon

I took a fiction-writing workshop my sophomore year at Northwestern, and I hadn't yet read Junot Diaz or George Saunders, Flannery O'Connor. There was…

— Karen Russell

I took two fiction-writing courses in college and majored in literature. I felt that I had a knack though I wouldn't go so far…

— Ben Fountain

I think that kind of balance comes with the process of growing together as a band, the Little Dragon. We love to write, we…

— Yukimi Nagano

“We don't need to strive towards balance, we rather need to work on the obstacles that are preventing the natural flow of balance.”

— A.A. Alebraheem

Life's unfairness is not irrevocable; we can help balance the scales for others, if not always for ourselves.

— Hubert H. Humphrey

she got a reputation for an easy smile and a sharp tongue, and using one to balance the other, she seemed friendly but distant

— Dorothy Allison

I can still function when I don't have that balance I crave. I had a tendency to be precious about acting, thinking of it…

— Laura Regan

The bones of my architecture are very much related to the structure, to the physical fact of how a building can stand up; it's…

— Santiago Calatrava

Balance suggests a perfect equilibrium. There is no such thing. That is a false expectation… There are going to be priorities and dimensions of…

— Denise Morrison