Books Quote by Wole Soyinka

I teach literature. That's easy for me. Take someone else's work and talk about it.

— Chinua Achebe

I see myself only sporadically as a teacher and consistently as a writer. Teaching is how I pay the bills...and fortunately, for my students,…

— Vijay Seshadri

My teaching forces me to articulate what I think works in a piece of fiction and how I think it works. All of that…

— Dana Spiotta

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

— Tom Barbash

I am a writer of books in retrospect. I talk in order to understand; I teach in order to learn.

— Robert Frost

On top of whatever else I'm doing, I'm usually teaching some form of composition. The benefit of this is I get to read across…

— Gregory Pardlo

I really recommend that anyone who wants to write have a very physical hobby that takes you away from books and criticism, because it…

— Jo-Ann Mapson

When I began to be published, people got the idea that I should 'teach writing,' which I have no idea how to do and…

— Anne Carson

What does literature do for me? I think I solve problems in my writing. They may be my problems, but perhaps others share them,…

— Sabina Murray

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

— Ben Marcus

I learned to write from reading. I had no writing classes. It's part of my thinking as the writer-author, reading, but then I also…

— Lynne Tillman

I do lots of reading and speaking at many universities about literature and also about politics, which is as much a part of my…

— Grace Paley