Challenges Quote by Patricia Mauceri

My students - all adults - bring a lot of writing skill to the first class, and they and I get better as the…

— James Thayer

I always talk to my students about the need to write for the joy of writing. I try to sort of disaggregate the acclaim…

— Kim Edwards

There's no getting around it: Writing is hard, while working with young performers is nearly always a joy.

— Andrew Lloyd Webber

Good writing of course requires talent, and no one can teach you to have talent.

— Peter Carey

“One of the hardest concepts for students to grasp or accept about writing is the time that it takes to make something good.”

— Cynthia D. Urbanski

The only way to raise the quality of writing in school is to create, share, and celebrate the specific criteria for that quality with…

— Barry Lane

Writing really is a difficult craft and there are many parts to master.

— James Johnson

It's my experience that people write better when they feel at ease and free to experiment, rather than being in a competitive, hypercritical atmosphere.…

— Elaine Equi

Teaching and writing, really, they support and nourish each other, and they foster good thinking. Because when you show up in the classroom, you…

— Emily Barton

I think all good writing is a struggle. To write as well as you feel you can has to be a struggle, almost by…

— Jane Asher

“Young writers find out what kinds of writers they are by experiment. If they choose from the outset to practice exclusively a form of…

— John McPhee

I used to do a lot of story writing and storytelling coming up through grade school. By the time I got to college, I…

— Rhea Seehorn