Kids Quote by Melissa Febos

In every story I have heard, good teachers share one trait: a strong sense of personal identity infuses their work.

— Parker J. Palmer

It really helped to have someone whose taste I really trusted who I knew was really smart and a really good writer. Sometimes I…

— Kumail Nanjiani

I was a writer since I was a little kid. It just always sort of fit for me.

— Brian Bird

I like to think that I get better and better as a writer, but it seems pretty easy to me to slip on disguises…

— Daniel Handler

I believe a writer's most important skill lies in being able to see things from different perspectives.

— Patrick Rothfuss

There are probably writers who are much more visual than I am and some who are less. I like to think of myself as…

— Brian K. Vaughan

I'm insatiably curious about human nature. I feel very lucky that as a writer I get to learn so much about it just to…

— Susan Cain

You have a set of skills, a way of looking at the world, and often in childhood it was revealed to you by things…

— Robert Greene

For me, being a good creative writing teacher is actually kind of being a good therapist. The line is very porous - you can…

— Annie Baker

Writers are socially observant. We find people endlessly fascinating, and real life is mysterious. Sometimes it's hard to stop staring at the strut and…

— Julianna Baggott

If I had a talent, it was for looking askew at everything, possibly more than my contemporaries. But I had to really push myself…

— David Bowie

Because I don't have to be careful of people's feelings when I teach literature, and I do when I'm teaching writing.

— Tobias Wolff