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“I teach one semester a year, and this year I'm just teaching one course during that semester, a writing workshop for older students in their late 20s and early 30s, people in our graduate program w...”
“I don't want to be movie-star famous. I want to move people with my writing.”
“The simplest and cheapest of all reforms within institutional science is to switch from the passive to the active voice in writing about science.”
“Writing is very cathartic for me. As a teacher, I hear many students say that writing can be painful and exhausting. It can be, but ultimately I believe that if you push through, the process is hea...”
“'The Turner Diaries' is a racist daydream by a former physics teacher writing under the pseudonym Andrew Macdonald.”
“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.”
“I wanted to be a Teacher with a big T: teach the whole planet. It led me into writing and speaking to large groups.”
“I often think that the prime directive for me as a teacher of writing is akin to that for a physician, which is this: do no harm.”
“I made my drama teacher cry. I only took drama to get out of writing papers in English and the teacher was this thespian Broadway geek and here I was this Italian guy from Staten Island and I would...”
“Any writing teacher tells you to write what you know, and for better or for worse, Washington is a world I know well.”
“I like to edit my sentences as I write them. I rearrange a sentence many times before moving on to the next one. For me, that editing process feels like a form of play, like a puzzle that needs sol...”
“Writing, I'm convinced, should be a subversive activity - frowned on by the authorities - and not one cooed over and praised beyond common sense by some teacher.”
“My breakthrough was when I began to write during my commute, at first taking notes on my Palm Pilot, and then moving on to writing full prose on the tiny QWERTY keyboard of my iPaq smartphone. I go...”
“In the world of opinion writing, there's something called the 'to be sure' paragraph. A sort of rhetorical antibiotic, it seeks to defend against critics by injecting a tiny bit of counter-argument...”
“For correct writing, the cultivation of patience and mental accuracy is essential. Throughout the young author's period of apprenticeship, he must keep reliable dictionaries and textbooks at his el...”
“Writing is boring, very boring, and it takes so much patience.”
“You know, writing is really difficult, and it takes a real patience and a skill. I don't know if I have that. I admire it in others, so much, and I envy it.”
“For me, most writing consists of siphoning out useless pre-story matter, cutting and cutting and cutting, what seems to be endless rewriting, and what is entailed in all that is patience, and waiti...”
“Faithfulness to the past can be a kind of death above ground. Writing of the past is a resurrection the past then lives in your words and you are free. ”
“Once writing has become your major vice and greatest pleasure, only death can stop it.”
