Quotes About Author

Besides the aesthetics, besides teaching an appreciation of T.S. Eliot, a basic need is fulfilled when you teach English at CUNY.

So many people think of me as a character on TV, but first and foremost, my passion is teaching dance and creating employable, working dancers.

It's a matter of the heart... I take teaching at Harvard very seriously and supervision of my students very seriously. Harvard should have a bona fide commitment to me.

I have been in more classrooms than any legislator will ever walk into in their lives, and I see wonderful, caring, dedicated teaching out there.

I am in the Master of Professional Writing program teaching Humor Writing, Literary and Dramatic.

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

Because I don't have to be careful of people's feelings when I teach literature, and I do when I'm teaching writing.

My teaching began in 1936 at Iowa State College where T. W. Schultz was the department chairman.

But in the meantime I became accustomed to the writing life and it would be hard to change now - partly because of the salary cut if I went to my other love, teaching; and partly because I still have stories to tell, even though it isn't all that fun doing the work anymore.

When I was writing my first two books I was also freelancing and teaching and doing other odd jobs.

I've been teaching classes on memoirs since 1986, and I've been reading them all my life, and I think that I would like to write a critical book that might have some of those how-to elements in it.

For me, the reputation for teaching language in general, and East European languages most particularly, gave Glasgow University, and by reflection the country, a distinction.

I wrote my first five horror novels while I was teaching.

The core of my career is my teaching and my writing.

The Catholic teaching against murder, for example, is largely the same as our secular laws. But as a law, it obviously has a secular rationale at least as strong as its religious rationale.

I have written more than 100 novels and novellas since 1983 - I was first published in 1985. There was an overlap of three years with my teaching career, but finally I felt good enough about my writing career to quit teaching and write full time.

In the middle of my fourth year teaching is when I got my book contract - in 2010. I knew the book would come out in May 2011.

I'm not sure that teaching a Core course is necessarily the best introduction to teaching.

I have a teaching job that allows me to pay the rent and affords me to, frankly, write the books I want to write.

I enjoy teaching football.

When you look at the teachings of the Bible, it's pretty dark with Revelations, the Holy Ghost and everything, so hence the darkness upon me on my records.

I style my roles mostly with some help from my team of stylists.

Our experience on 'Avatar' heavily influenced how we approached 'The Dragon Prince' and how we built our team.

I am betting on Google's team to be the epicenter of future breakthroughs.