David Grann Quotes

I wrote my first 30 books as a teacher. I would read to my classes, and they'd give me feedback. I was trying to role model.

I hope to continue writing. I hope to continue teaching.

I was an elementary school teacher.

I was a social studies teacher at a high school in the Bronx for five years.

I never lose sight of the fact that before I was a writer, I was a teacher. I still am. My classroom's just gotten a little bigger.

I'm a schoolteacher and a writer. So that's what I do.

I was going to become a teacher.

Teaching is what I've always done.

I'd love to go back and teach primary school. I used to teach fourth grade and fifth grade. I'd love to spend several years teaching kindergarten or maybe third grade.

I was terrified of being a teacher. To stand in front of a classroom, the responsibility is boggling. Imagine! Standing in front of people!

'Educational' refers to the process, not the object. Although, come to think of it, some of my teachers could easily have been replaced by a cheeseburger.

We were living in Denver, Colorado, and I was teaching high school. I asked the kids to write a short story, so I thought I should write some myself.

Teaching is in my bones. I love to teach.

I got into writing because books and stories were always a big part of my life. I loved listening to them and then reading them, and I loved making them up.

I loved teaching. I used to teach fourth grade.

Having been an educator for so many years I know that all a good teacher can do is set a context, raise questions or enter into a kind of a dialogic relationship with their students.

I've never had the patience of a teacher.

This is what I would have done if I had to have a real job: I would have been a history teacher.

My passion has always been books and literature, and teaching.

A teacher must believe in the value and interest of his subject as a doctor believes in health.

I want to work with kids. I would love to be a teacher.

I'm a novelist, that's how I make my livelihood, and I concentrate on the novels.

For example, many colleges in their writing programs teach some of my work.

Teaching was the most pleasant thing I did.

I was so in love with books from as early as I remember that it seemed a natural step to want to create them. And so I just wanted to be a writer from a very young age. And I think that the lies were just a natural side effect of me wanting to tell stories and write them down.