Mentorship Quote by John Gardner

“The only real job of a teacher, especially a writing teacher, is to help students find themselves.”

— Derrick Jensen

“The instruction here is not for every kind of writer - not for the writer of nurse books or thrillers or porno or the…

— John Gardner

A good creative-writing teacher can save a good writer a lot of time.

— Richard Hugo

“Good writing is like porn to me.”

— Kasey Edwards

“Every time you say blah blah blah, a creative writing teacher dies.”

— Michael Lopp

“Habits of an empowerED teacher: “read, notice, think, make theories about how writing works, imagine possibilities, write yourself; it isn’t magic, it’s just slow,…

— Penny Kittle

A teacher should have a creative mind.

— Anonymous

It was my fifth grade teacher who introduced the idea that writing could be more than a hobby for me.

— Lauren DeStefano

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

— Tom Barbash

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

For historians, creative writers provide a kind of pornography.

— Hilary Mantel

My freshman English professor at Kent State University in 1984 told me I was a good writer, and she loved all the silly pictures…

— Dav Pilkey