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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 over the years intrudes on your own writing in important ways, taking away some of the excitement of poetry. -- Robert Morgan
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
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
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 is a hustle. -- Cormac McCarthy
Teaching English and teaching Writing are two separate things. -- Vanna Bonta
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
In teaching writing, I'm learning new things about writing. -- David B. Coe
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
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
I hope to continue writing. I hope to continue teaching. -- Jenna Bush
The core of my career is my teaching and my writing. -- Elizabeth Warren
Words are both my vocation and my avocation - reading, writing, editing, teaching. -- Christina Baker Kline
I am in the Master of Professional Writing program teaching Humor Writing, Literary and Dramatic. -- Shelley Berman
I don't take off time from teaching to write. I take time off from writing to teach. -- Steven Millhauser
I'm not actually teaching any more, but I am writing pieces for schools all the time, and for kids. -- Peter Maxwell Davies
When I was writing my first two books I was also freelancing and teaching and doing other odd jobs. -- Curtis Sittenfeld
I hate writing. I almost never write. I write against deadlines. And when I'm teaching, I'm focused on that. -- Edmund White
I think I've become more like my mom just because of what we're both interested in, children and teaching and writing. -- Jenna Bush
I would probably have been very content as a scholar to have carried on organising exhibitions and writing books and teaching. -- Thomas P. Campbell
I come to writing the same way I come to teaching, which is that my goal is always to create life-long readers. -- Rick Riordan
I hate thinking about it, teaching about it, and writing about it. But the plain truth is that hell is real and real people go there for eternity. -- Bill Hybels
I thought to spend my declining years writing poetry and teaching - but that won't pay the Bergdorf's bill. I think I'll move to somewhere life is cheaper. -- Erica Jong
I have always admired teachers because teaching, like the priesthood, medicine and writing, is a vocation. You don't become a teacher because you want wealth. It is the same with writing. -- F. Sionil Jose
I love teaching online at my website and soon I'll be writing a math book. I love to teach math. I just don't have time for a full-time teaching gig. Acting is way too time-consuming. -- Danica McKellar
From my years of teaching creative writing, I know that new writers take the setting for granted, as simply a place to set the action, but setting is a vital element in fiction writing and deserves serious treatment. -- Garry Disher
As with many teens, my first jobs included babysitting and mopping floors at McDonald's. Since then, I've held jobs a diverse as selling used cars, selling apparel, cosmetics, and real-estate, substitute-teaching six graders, teaching undergraduate creative writing, and working as an editorial assistant for a literary magazine. -- Therese Fowler
When you're researching you're learning. When you're writing, you're teaching. -- Susan Orlean
I do not need any writing, since I transmit teaching beyond words and ideas. -- Bodhidharma
Reading, writing, teaching, learning, are all activities aimed at introducing civilizations to each other. -- Carlos Fuentes
Teaching and writing about philosophy is about the only thing I've ever been really good at. -- Allen W. Wood
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In fact, the very phrase "teaching creative writing" sounds to me oxymoronic. How can you teach someone to be creative? -- Yuriy Tarnawsky
I would probably have been very content as a scholar to have carried on organising exhibitions and writing books and teaching, -- Thomas P. Campbell
Teaching writing puts you on the point of a pin in terms of what you want your own writing to be. -- Jane Alison
Traveling is my priority, because it drives the writing, so I teach around the travel, and sometimes the travel is the teaching. -- Pam Houston
Writing essays and teaching composition have helped me immensely in writing poetry, because they've forced me to focus on the structure of ideas. -- Aaron Belz
If you don't set your writing - teaching - at a level that makes them stretch, they are never going to develop their intellectual muscle. -- M. H. Abrams
I learned to dream through reading, learned to create dreams through writing, and learned to develop dreamers through teaching. I shall always be a dreamer. -- Sharon M. Draper
Teaching was great for me, because I got to show people how writing can really change the way you see not only yourself but the world. -- Sarah Dessen
I do different work, teaching and running around visiting universities and bookstores, and that prevents me from writing. But it's nice to be wanted as a writer. -- Bonnie Jo Campbell
Teaching and writing have tended to proceed on parallel lines, but there have been times when there was indeed carry-over from the classroom to the creative work. -- Adam Kirsch
My plan is to continue teaching many more years than the 32 years I've already enjoyed and continue writing, and promoting my books and websites if it's God will. -- Ana Monnar
I learned to dream through reading, learned to create dreams through writing, and learned to develop dreamers through teaching. I shall always be a dreamer. Come dream with me. -- Sharon Draper

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