Convince Quote by Joyce Carol Oates

I believe that everyone has a story, and it is important that we encourage all students to tell theirs.

— Erin Gruwell

I have to admit that talking authoritatively about my students' stories can make me feel, at times, like an astronaut who has just landed…

— Etgar Keret

“The best way to teach people is by telling a story”

— Kenneth H. Blanchard

Let your Teacher be Love itself.

— Rumi

I love stories about teachers. For some reason I can't get enough of those kind of stories. If I turn a movie on about…

— Jim Carrey

“But as a wise and great teacher once explained so patiently, all good stories - stories that touch your soul, stories that change your…

— Camron Wright

The teacher always used me as an example to the class of good English and good storytelling because we all had to write the…

— Michael Jackson

“Good stories teach!”

— Camron Wright

“Professors and classmates seemed genuinely interested in what seemed to me a superficially boring story: I”

— J.D. Vance

“In fact, I liked teaching because I liked telling other people what to do. In those days it seemed clearer to me than it…

— Lydia Davis

I remember a class I taught at Ohio State where I assigned a Mary Gaitskill story, which really wasn't that bad, and I had…

— Donald Ray Pollock

“A good story defies the reader's expectations, and in doing so, brings them satisfaction.”

— Thomas Maltman