American education Quote by Patty McGee

“Writing is all at once an exploration of what is, and what is not. Of the known, and the unknown. A journey into the…

— Madelaine Standing

“Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. There's many…

— Flannery O'Connor

“I have learned one lesson as a writer...keep writing and never throw any notes away. Written parts that can't be used today...may be used…

— Timothy Pina

“But for the rest of us, we should be regularly reassessing why we write. When we know what we’re going for (human impact? fame?…

— Tasha Golden

“the act of writing will make you a better student, a better worker, a better friend, a better citizen, a better parent, a better…

— Roy Peter Clark

“I want to say to the literature teacher who remains wilfully, even boastfully ignorant of a major element of contemporary fiction: you are incompetent…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

Writers are greatly respected. The intelligent public is wonderfully patient with them, continues to read them, and endures disappointment after disappointment, waiting to hear…

— Saul Bellow

“From what I saw the plurality of students and faculty had been educated exclusively in the tradition of writers like William Gaddis...”

— Junot Díaz

It is only a moment here and a moment there that the greatest writer has. Some cognizance of the fact must be taken in…

— Robert Frost

“Readers may be divided into three classes - the superficial, the ignorant, and the learned, and I have with much felicity fitted my pen…

— Jonathan Swift

“Writing is a way of remaking the world, both for the writer and reader.”

— Mark Rubinstein

“Ahhh, teaching literature. A noble calling! For we are all stories.”

— Carolyn Weber