"A teacher should have a creative mind...." - Quote by A P J Abdul Kalam

“IF you Salute your work,You do not have to salute anybody.IF you pollute your work,You have to salute everybody.”

“Success is when your signature becomes an autograph.”

“Every nation has to follow a certain policy: Commercial, trade, various other types of policies.”

“You can’t learn to write in college. It’s a very bad place for writers because the teachers always think they know more than you do—and they don’t. They have prejudices. They may like Henry James, but what if you don’t want to write like Henry James? They may like John Irving, for instance, who’s the bore of all time. A lot of the people whose work they’ve taught in the schools for the last thirty years, I can’t understand why people read them and why they are taught.”

“I'm going to insist on making sure that we've got decent funding, that we've got enough teachers, that we've got computers in the classroom, but unless you turn off the television set and get over a certain anti-intellectualism that I think pervades some low-income communities, our children are not going to achieve.”

“An educator never says what he himself thinks, but only that which he thinks it is good for those whom he is educating to hear.”

“I'm a writer and writers either have good memories or nothing at all.”

“I do a first draft as passionately and as quickly as I can. I believe a story is valid only when it's immediate and passionate, when it dances out of your subconscious. If you interfere in any way, you destroy it.”

“Art is the clothing of a revelation”