Balance Quote by Nick Hornby

On top of whatever else I'm doing, I'm usually teaching some form of composition. The benefit of this is I get to read across…

— Gregory Pardlo

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

“Conversation consists of developing and playing with ideas by juxtaposing the accumulated conclusions of two or more people and then improvising on them. It…

— Judith Martin

Conversation is our account of ourselves...Conversation is the vent of character as well as thoughts...It is the laboratory of the student.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Teaching is only interesting because you struggle with trying to talk about photographs, photographs that work, you see.

— Garry Winogrand

Conversation is the art of speaking without thinking.

— Victor De Kowa

Talking is something you can't do judiciously unless you keep in practice.

— Dashiell Hammett

“Conversation lets you be an artist every time you open your mouth--or shut it. As Robert Louis Stevenson said, "The most important art is…

— Margaret Shepherd

If you intellectualize and examine the creative process too carefully it can evaporate and vanish. It's not only terribly difficult to talk about, it's…

— Edward Albee

As a teacher you just look at someone and you transmit to them what they need to know. Not simply a thought form, but…

— Frederick Lenz

I teach literature. That's easy for me. Take someone else's work and talk about it.

— Chinua Achebe

I learned that when something just has to be said to move the discussion along, or broaden it or deepen it, if I can…

— Greil Marcus