Class Quote by Susan Orlean

These days, most of my interactions with young people are centered on the poetry or theater classes I teach, so the students I know…

— Renee Watson

I have no formal training as a writer at all, not even a single English class in college. However, my adult books are all…

— Scott Westerfeld

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 went to classes on writing for film and theatre as well as short stories at Stanford.

— Brook Lopez

For my students who are trying to learn the craft of writing in a writing class - contemporary literature is what's most useful.

— Alan Lightman

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

A great variety of reading confuses and does not teach. It makes the student like a man who dwells everywhere and, therefore, nowhere in…

— Martin Luther

“You can’t take a class if taking a class feels like it’s going to kill you. Faking it never works. If you don’t believe…

— Cheryl Strayed

I really like my writing class. It's like Freedom Writers but less chocolate people and more social awkwardness. Same amount of teen moms though...

— Anonymous

I obviously read and adore traditional fiction. I teach traditional fiction; I also teach all kinds of not-so-traditional fiction.

— Heidi Julavits

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

Fiction writing and journalism, in my experience, are really excellent training grounds for each other.

— Monica Hesse