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I loved English, and I did very well in it. A lot of teachers encouraged me to write, and because of that, it later made me think it was possible to be a writer.

I loved reading and writing, and teaching was the most exalted profession I could imagine.

I had the most incredible English and literature teachers in school, and it really influenced my love of storytelling. It's what made me excited to study journalism in college. I love editorials and documentaries. All of that came from being given the opportunity to lose myself in good writing when I was a kid.

I love teaching creative writing, and I think I'm good at it, but in a different life, I could have been teaching elementary school.

I wanted to be a teacher, but I was a lousy student, one of the slowest readers. It was a tremendous struggle. But I'm lucky I had some teachers who saw something in me.

I taught high school English for 24 years. I always teach my students to appreciate the beauty of language and to write poetically.

I'd probably want to teach at university, because children would drive me insane. I suspect it would be English literature, Shakespeare and so forth. I've always been deeply, deeply in love with that kind of thing.

I planned on being an English teacher, but I don't know where that went.

I never intended to be a teacher. I just like going to school and learning things.

Literature is my life of course, but from an ontological point of view. From an existential point of view, I like being a teacher.