Decision Quote by Leni Zumas

You can recognize in your own reading habits what writers are doing that works and what doesn't. I'm becoming much more aware of that…

— Dan Chaon

Many novice writers, students in particular, think that writing is little more than copying down their self-talk, the palaver of the voices they hear…

— Richard Rhodes

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've learned a lot about writing from listening to my students talk.

— Marilynne Robinson

I place a lot of emphasis on process and revision because I believe that all of my students can become better writers through hard…

— Cate Marvin

I'm not a wildly gifted person; I don't play an instrument or speak another language or have great accomplishments in another field, as many…

— Jennifer Egan

Students need to make their own choices about reading material and writing topics.

— Donalyn Miller

Thinking visually is my starting point, and then the writing happens.

— Gerard Way

For me, writing is a concentrated form of thinking.

— Don DeLillo

Something I always tell students is, when you're writing something, you want to write the first draft and you want it to come out…

— Sandra Cisneros

I'm dependent on writing for a living, so really it's to my advantage to understand how the creative process works. One of the problems…

— Alan Moore

For me writing is an organic process that starts with engaging the language and then thinking about the structure of the novel as you…

— Dana Spiotta