Ocupation: Author
Life: b. October 21, 1929
Birthday: October 21
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.
source: 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
topic: Teaching, Writing, Marketing, Teaching Writing, Salesperson