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“Smoking cigarettes and writing something nasty on the wall, teacher sends you to the Principal's office down the hall.”

Writing Education Teacher Wall Office Smoking Halls Cigarette Principal Nasty Smoking Cigarettes

Author:Stevie Wonder

“When I was writing 'The Abstinence Teacher,' I really tried to immerse myself in contemporary American evangelical culture.”

Writing Culture Teacher Contemporary Evangelical Abstinence

Author:Tom Perrotta

“When I was about 13 or 14, I had an English teacher who made a deal with me that I could get out of doing all of the year's regular work if I would write a short story a week and on Friday read it to the class.”

Ifs Writing Years Made Stories Deals Class Teacher Week Short Story Friday English Teacher

Author:Victor Salva

“My teacher has a reading problem. He can't read my writing”

Writing Problem Reading Teacher Teaching

Book:Encyclopedia of Ad-Libs, Crazy Jokes, Insults and Wisecracks

Source: Encyclopedia of Ad-Libs, Crazy Jokes, Insults and Wisecracks

“When I was child, I never spoke. Teacher used to write remarks on my note book. My mom sent me to a trainer. I started talking, and it gave me confidence.”

Writing Children Book Used Talking Teacher Mom Notes My Mom Spokes Remarks Trainers Note Book

Author:Boman Irani

“I would love to see writing taught online because at university like Yale, there are not enough teachers who are able to teach writing well, or in some cases, there are none.”

Writing Wells Enough Able Teach Cases Teacher Taught University Online Yale Writing Well

Author:David Gelernter

“[My mom] had always wanted to write a children's book. She was a children's librarian and an elementary school teacher, so of course she loves children and children's literature.”

Writing Children Book Wanted School Courses Literature Teacher Mom My Mom Librarian Children's Books Elementary School Children Love School Teachers Children's Literature

Author:Jenna Bush

“An understandable hunger for potential clients tempts many [career counseling therapists] to overpromise, like creative writing teachers who, out of greed or sentimentality, sometimes imply that all of their students could one day produce worthwhile literature, rather than frankly acknowledging the troubling truth, anathema to a democratic society, that the great writer, like the contented worker, remains an erratic and anomalous event, immune to the methods of factory farming.”