Good story Quote by Leni Zumas

Teaching is a great complement to writing. It's very social and gets you out of your own head. It's also very optimistic. It renews…

— Eleanor Catton

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

Teaching and writing, to me, is really just seduction; you go to where people are and you find something that they're interested in and…

— Lawrence M. Krauss

Nothing teaches great writing like the very best books do. Yet, good teachers often help students cross that bridge, and I have to say…

— Julia Glass

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

— Ben Marcus

Teaching and writing, really, they support and nourish each other, and they foster good thinking. Because when you show up in the classroom, you…

— Emily Barton

No one can teach writing, but classes may stimulate the urge to write. If you are born a writer, you will inevitably and helplessly…

— Cynthia Ozick

I was a better writer when I was teaching. I was constantly going over the basics and constantly reminding myself, as I reminded my…

— Gil Scott-Heron

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

There is a whole industry in America of people who want to write, and those who teach it. Even if the students don't end…

— Edmund White

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

I don't teach writing. I teach patience. Toughness. Stubbornness. The willingness to fail. I teach the life. The odd thing is most of the…

— Richard Bausch