Assuming Quote by Tony Kushner

Whenever you write, whatever you write, never make the mistake of assuming the audience is any less intelligent than you are.

— Rod Serling

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

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

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

Something I always tell students is, when you're writing something, you want to write the first draft and you want it to come out…

— Sandra Cisneros

You write for two people, yourself and your audience, who are usually better educated and at least as smart.

— Tony Hillerman

When you write what you know, you stay in control. One of the first things I encourage my writing students to do is to…

— Natalie Goldberg

I'm not a writer who teaches. I'm a teacher who writes.

— Maya Angelou

When I teach, I try to assign writers from whom I can learn.

— Tom Barbash

There have been times when I've written something and it goes out and it comes back in a letter from some kid as to…

— David Bowie

“I once had a substitute teacher in my 4th grade class that was wonderful. He said learning was like throwing mud on a wall.…

— Michele Gwynn