David B. Coe Quotes

I'm not a writer who teaches. I'm a teacher who writes.

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

I have never written a book that didn't teach me far more than it taught my reader.

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

I find it both fascinating and disconcerting when I discover yet another person who believes that writing can't be taught. Frankly, I don't understand this point of view.

Learn as much by writing as by reading.

When I began to be published, people got the idea that I should 'teach writing,' which I have no idea how to do and don't really believe in.

Teaching at best beckons us to morality, but it is not in itself efficacious. Teaching is like a mirror. It can show you if your face is dirty, but it the mirror will not wash your face.

Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.

I began to understand with a terrible sureness that we teach what we need to learn and write what we need to know.

Indeed, learning to write may be part of learning to read. For all I know, writing comes out of a superior devotion to reading.

To teach is to learn twice.

Marlo taught me things I thought I knew.

I teach.

I love teaching; I love little kids.

Doing interesting things and then writing about them is the best way to become a good writer.

Writing is like jazz. It can be learned, but it can't be taught.

There are a thousand thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up a pen to write.

Something I've really enjoyed learning more about is course design.

I've always wanted to make teaching a part of my life.

People say you can't teach writing, but I think that's nonsense.

I teach a non-fiction writing class at New York University, and one of my great pleasures is deciding on the syllabus.

Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.

I like teaching and the contact with young minds keeps one on one's toes.

I reached a point where I'd watched enough directors do the job that I felt I understood it. And it's not that I'm a slow learner and it took me this long; I also was enjoying writing, and I still enjoy writing - I get tremendous satisfaction out of the writing end of it.