Art Quote by Miguel Ferrer

When I took over the Writers' Workshop, it was one little class and there were eight students. All of them, brilliantly untalented... I had…

— Paul Engle

I took a lot of writing courses.

— Danny Strong

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’ve always thought that a close-reading course should at least be a companion, if not an alternative, to the writing workshop. Though it also…

— Francine Prose

At DePauw, I was teaching writing and fiction. The things I wanted to teach, more than anything else, were form and theory of the…

— Nic Pizzolatto

I did a course in creative writing.

— Antara Mali

I've never enjoyed a course or training as much as this. I feel inspired, energised and more focussed about my teaching and career future.

— Alison Moore

It was my notion that teaching had to be thorough, it had to be well done, and it had to connect to something beyond…

— David C. Driskell

When I was hired by the University of Washington extension school to teach the one-year fiction writing course - 96 classroom hours - I…

— James Thayer

I enjoyed teaching. I liked the students. Having to formulate my ideas about literature made them clearer. I did not particularly enjoy the more…

— Margaret Atwood

Writing a first novel was an arduous crash course. I learned so much in the six years it took me to write it, mostly…

— Rachel Kushner

I love the students - they are remarkable, inspiring people. I would miss teaching if I stopped doing it. The kind of work I…

— Donald Margulies