Teaching Writing Quotes

• 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, and as a teacher I'm obliged to consider them all, rather than staying in the safety of my own tendencies.

  Leni Zumas

  Teacher, Teaching, Writing

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• Teaching English and teaching Writing are two separate things.

  Vanna Bonta

  Teaching, Writing, Two

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• The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.

  William Arthur Ward

  Motivational, Leadership, Basketball

  William Arthur Ward (1968). “Thoughts of a Christian Optimist: The Words of William Arthur Ward”

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• Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre.

  Gail Godwin

  Inspirational, Thank You, Education

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• In teaching writing, I'm learning new things about writing.

  David B. Coe

  Teaching, Writing, Learning New Things

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• Teaching writing is a hustle.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Teaching, Writing, Hustle

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• Over time I learned that there are two very different satisfactions that you can have in your life. One is the satisfaction of becoming skilled at something. It almost doesn't matter what the terrain is. There is a deep, soul-feeding resonance in mastery itself, whether in teaching, writing a complicated software program, coaching a baseball team, or marshalling a group of people to start a new business.

  Atul Gawande

  Baseball, Team, Teaching

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• Teaching writing puts you on the point of a pin in terms of what you want your own writing to be.

  Jane Alison

  Teaching, Writing, Want

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• Before I got my present job, I spent many years teaching writing part-time, so-called, at community colleges and universities. It's academia's version of migrant labor.

  Debra Dean

  Jobs, Teaching, Writing

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Teaching writing over the years intrudes on your own writing in important ways, taking away some of the excitement of poetry.

  Robert Morgan

  Teaching, Writing, Years

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• Because I don't have to be careful of people's feelings when I teach literature, and I do when I'm teaching writing.

  Tobias Wolff

  Teaching, Writing, People

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• If success in selling is my primary interest, I am not primarily a writer, but a salesperson. If I teach success in selling as the writer's primary objective, I am not teaching writing; I'm teaching, or pretending to teach, the production and marketing of a commodity.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Teaching, Writing, Marketing

  Ursula K. Le Guin (2004). “The Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader, and the Imagination”, p.253, Shambhala Publications

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• At DePauw, I was teaching writing and fiction. The things I wanted to teach, more than anything else, were form and theory of the novel, of narrative. I liked those classes.

  Nic Pizzolatto

  Teaching, Writing, Class

  "True voice brings 'True Detective' to life". Interview with Christopher Borrelli, www.chicagotribune.com. January 22, 2014.

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• I loved teaching. It was my world. I only left because I was overwhelmed with three careers - teaching, writing, and my family.

  Patricia Reilly Giff

  Teaching, Writing, Careers

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