Advice Quote by Lorrie Moore

When I am performing, I try to follow the advice I give to my students. This can be very hard - I was never…

— Jeff Raz

I have a final word of advice to our students. If you work very, very hard, this is the kind of actor, writer and…

— Alan Alda

I always tell my students to write the story all the way through, not to play with the language and fall in love with…

— Molly Antopol

I do bring my teaching together with my writing. I make students write in class, and do the same prompts I give them. I'm…

— Allison Joseph

I used to tell my writing students that they must write the books they wished they could come upon - because then the books…

— Anne Lamott

I try to tell student writers to read as much as possible, not only literature but philosophy, theory, and to form obsessions. There's a…

— Kate Zambreno

“Each newcomer feels obliged to do something else, forgetting that if he himself is somebody he will necessarily do that something else," said Valéry.…

— Richard Hugo

The crudest thing I've done as a teacher was to require students to write a national anthem for their country and sing it themselves.

— Chris Van Allsburg

I tell my students that when you write, you should pretend you’re writing the best letter you ever wrote to the smartest friend you…

— Jeffrey Eugenides

“Let students write down or discuss answers in pairs before discussing as a class.”

— Rachael Roberts

“It's all right, I want to say to the students who write to me, for things to be what they appear to be, and…

— Eudora Welty

The academic bias against subjectivity not only forces our students to write poorly ("It is believed...," instead of, "I believe..."), it deforms their thinking…

— Parker J. Palmer