top of page
.png){kind=small}
More
"It wasn't until school that we realised that we were abnormal."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Even when I was in school shows, in elementary school doing plays, I'd always go off book and start improvising."
Author Name
Personal Development
"I started in high school and then I went onto professional training after that."
Author Name
Personal Development
"At an early school, when I was about 5, they asked what we wanted to be when we grew up. Everyone said silly things, and I said I wanted to be an actress. So that was what I wanted to be, but what I was, of course, was a writer."
Author Name
Personal Development
"School...school... is just nothing... if you think that you are going to learn something. You are here wrong, you wanna see the system?It's in about23 Channels as a start then increases... decreases... even with different topics in the end... they want you to recall the whole data from the 23 Channels as for Perfect, as For under Perfect Okay..okay... but still not perfect, as for Good... Just an Okay... and as for Middle... Little from there and little from there as for the last... Nothing at all."
Author Name
Personal Development
"A child educated only at school is an uneducated child."
Author Name
Personal Development
"You ought to go to a boy's school sometime. Try it sometime," I said. "It's full of phonies, and all you do is study so that you can learn enough to be smart enough to be able to buy a goddam Cadillac some day, and you have to keep making believe you give a damn if the football team loses, and all you do is talk about girls and liquor and sex all day, and everybody sticks together in these dirty little goddam cliques."
Author Name
Personal Development
"When asked 'What do we need to learn this for?' any high-school teacher can confidently answer that, regardless of the subject, the knowledge will come in handy once the student hits middle age and starts working crossword puzzles in order to stave off the terrible loneliness."
Author Name
Personal Development
"I went out to visit Dorsey Burnette, after I graduated high school."
Author Name
Personal Development
"However, ironically, I was baptized Presbyterian, and went to a Quaker school for twelve years."
Author Name
Personal Development
More
"No one inspired me to write, but writer Harlan Ellison terrified me into getting published."
Writing
"As for the depiction of the Catholic church, it's not meant to be a prediction."
Church
"The truth is, it's not a great career move to create a readership and then, in effect, abandon them."
Truth
"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."
Commonsense
"I loved almost everything about being a teacher, but I was an unusual teacher."
Being
"It's one of the strangest attributes of this profession that when we writers get exhausted writing one thing, we relax by writing another."
Creativity
"It's odd how violence and humor so often go together, isn't it?"
Humor
"There's a unique bond of trust between readers and authors that I don't believe exists in any other art form; as a reader, I trust a novelist to give me his or her best effort, however flawed."
Trust
"It started 25 years ago, when I was teaching elementary school in a small town in Missouri."
School
"As long as my sixth graders showed an average improvement of five years, the principal and district pretty much left me alone to create my own curriculum and teach whatever I wanted."
Teaching
bottom of page