You don't teach a person how to write as much as you teach that person how to survive the writing process.

"You will be hard pressed to read another book that understands you as well as 'Leaves of Grass' does. It was made for you in the way that the constellations were made for you. It understands and makes space for your doubts, your love, the guilt and passions of your life and waits for you."

Rowan Ricardo Phillips