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Instruction does not prevent wasted time or mistakes; and mistakes themselves are often the best teachers of all.

One of the great things about education is that it should stop you making mistakes - and I have made a lot of mistakes.

Sometimes we had to improvise. I hate to improvise because I felt like I couldn't find words.

Improvising is wonderful. But, the thing is that you cannot improvise unless you know exactly what you're doing. That's a kind of paradoxical thing about improvising.

I've learned that mistakes can often be as good a teacher as success.

People believe practice makes perfect, but it doesn't. If you're making a tremendous amount of mistakes, all you're doing is deeply ingraining the same mistakes.

It's okay to make mistakes. Mistakes are our teachers - they help us to learn.

I always say the minute I stop making mistakes is the minute I stop learning and I've definitely learned a lot.

Through the learning experiences, I've been trying to eliminate mistakes. I don't want the same mistake to happen twice.

These 'mistakes' occur in my books for a reason. I have an agenda: I'm secretly trying to inspire kids to create their own stories and comics, and I don't want them to feel stifled by 'perfectionism.'