“I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think”

“Too often, I think, children are required to write before they have anything to say. Teach them to think and read and talk with self-repression, and they will write because they cannot help it.”

“I don't think anybody can teach anybody anything. I think that you learn it, but the young writer that is as I say demon-driven and wants to learn and has got to write, he don't know why, he will learn from almost any source that he finds. He will learn from older people who are not writers, he will learn from writers, but he learns it -- you can't teach it.”

“Shit, if I can teach you precalc, I can teach anybody. like maybe kids with autism.”

“You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.”

“You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him find it within himself.”