Education Quote by Sarah Dessen

Teaching is a great complement to writing. It's very social and gets you out of your own head. It's also very optimistic. It renews…

— Eleanor Catton

Teaching is all armchair. I learn about writing by writing and thinking about what I've written and throwing it away.

— Ben Marcus

I loved reading and writing, and teaching was the most exalted profession I could imagine.

— Frank McCourt

In general, teaching writing makes me a far better reader because there's so many ways to write a good sentence or a good story,…

— Leni Zumas

Teaching well draws from the same well that writing draws from: the reserves of compassion and ability to listen and concentrate on another. So…

— Andre Dubus

I find teaching to be a great way to keep everything in perspective and to help give back. It's also a lot of fun…

— Channing Dungey

What I like about teaching is the discipline of finding words to unpack the artistic process. And I admire the drive in students who…

— Alison Hawthorne Deming

Teaching and writing, to me, is really just seduction; you go to where people are and you find something that they're interested in and…

— Lawrence M. Krauss

Teaching is good for me. It forces me to articulate ways of doing things or rules of thumb that I've sort of taken for…

— Mark Waid

As a writer, the ideal job is the one that allows you time and mental space away from it. Teaching seemed to me like…

— Debra Dean

I was fortunate to have many teachers who encouraged me - one of the first was Dianne Derrick, my 5th grade teacher at Woodbury…

— Celeste Ng

Teaching high school was my real training as a novelist: it got me out of my head, and (at least a little) out of…

— Garth Greenwell