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Teaching Writing Quotes (page 3)

Kurt Vonnegut quote: "When I used to teach creative writing, I would tell the..."
When I used to teach creative writing, I would tell the students to make their characters want something right away. Kurt Vonnegut
It is harrowing for me to try to teach 20-year-old students, who earnestly want to improve their writing. The best I can think to tell them is: Quit smoking, and observe posted speed limits. This will improve your odds of getting old enough to be wise Barbara Kingsolver
There's always moral instruction whether the writer inserts it deliberately or not. The least effective moral instruction in fiction is that which is consciously inserted. Partly because it won't reflect the storyteller's true beliefs, it will only reflect what he BELIEVES he believes, or what he thinks he should believe or what he's been persuaded of. But when you write without deliberately expressing moral teachings, the morals that show up are the ones you actually live by. The beliefs... Orson Scott Card
Toni Morrison quote: "I think some aspects of writing can be taught. Obviously, you..."
I think some aspects of writing can be taught. Obviously, you can't teach vision or talent. But you can help with comfort. Toni Morrison
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
The only medicine for suffering, crime, and all other woes of mankind, is wisdom. Teach a man to read and write, and you have put into his hands the great keys of the wisdom box. But it is quite another thing to open the box. Thomas Huxley
There is a set of religious, or rather moral, writings which teach that virtue is the certain road to happiness, and vice to misery in this world. A very wholesome and comfortable doctrine, and to which we have but one objection, namely, that it is not true. Francois Fenelon
I hoped that it would be possible to slide slowly from my public life back to the life of teaching and writing that I had always wanted. But things didn't work out that way. Charles Van Doren
It took me about three years to write About Grace. I wasn't teaching two of those years, so I was working eight-hour days, five days a week. And it would include research and reading - it wasn't just a blank page, laying down words. Anthony Doerr
Why do you think I write these feminist songs, to try and teach myself to respect myself. You know, it's not because I'm a hero. Ani DiFranco
Peter Maxwell Davies quote: "I'm not actually teaching any more, but I am writing pieces..."
I'm not actually teaching any more, but I am writing pieces for schools all the time, and for kids. Peter Maxwell Davies
My job in space will be to observe and write a journal. I am also going to be teaching a class for students on earth about life in space and on the space shuttle and conducting experiments. Christa McAuliffe
Tobias Wolff quote: "You don't teach information in a writing workshop."
You don't teach information in a writing workshop. Tobias Wolff
The one thing a lifetime in the newspaper business teaches you is pace - you spend all your time trying to make sure that the reader's going to finish what you're writing. Carl Hiaasen
Between rounds of speed chess I read enough of a programming manual to teach myself to write programs on the school's DEC mainframe in the language Basic. Eric Allin Cornell

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