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

source: Source: therumpus.net

topic: Teacher, Teaching, Writing, Teaching Writing

Teaching English and teaching Writing are two separate things.

- Vanna Bonta

topic: Teaching, Writing, Two, Teaching English, Teaching Writing

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

- William Arthur Ward

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

topic: Motivational, Leadership, Basketball, Joy Of Learning, Inspirational Education

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

- Gail Godwin

topic: Inspirational, Thank You, Education, Good Teacher, Good Students

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

- David B. Coe

source: Source: www.sfsignal.com

topic: Teaching, Writing, Learning New Things, Learning New, Teaching Writing

Teaching writing is a hustle.

- Cormac McCarthy

topic: Teaching, Writing, Hustle, Teaching Writing

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

topic: Baseball, Team, Teaching, Deep Soul, Baseball Team

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

- Jane Alison

source: Source: therumpus.net

topic: Teaching, Writing, Want, Teaching Writing

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

source: Source: therumpus.net

topic: Jobs, Teaching, Writing, Colleges And Universities, Community College

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

- Robert Morgan

topic: Teaching, Writing, Years, Teaching Writing

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

topic: Teaching, Writing, People, Teaching Writing

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

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

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

topic: Teaching, Writing, Class, Teaching Writing

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

topic: Teaching, Writing, Careers, Teaching Writing