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I’ve known people that the world has thrown everything at to discourage them...to break their spirit. And yet something about them retains…
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Writing is the thing that props me up.
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When you're a writer, you have to write these stories, even if you don't get paid
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You have to watch out with my plays. They're like yeast. You think they're one thing, then all of a sudden subtext…
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But I don't really write to honor the past. I write to investigate, to try to figure out what happened and why…
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If I ever teach writing again, I’d say the first lesson is to listen.
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I'm a social writer in the sense that I want to record, but not in the sense of trying to change people's…
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A lot of writing is thinking.
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In New York, there are a lot of plays to see, and I try to see as many as I can.
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My mother, twenty-two, was Harriet Gautier Brooks, named for her paternal grandmother, but always called Hallie. My father, twenty-six, was Albert Horton…
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If I ever teach writing again, I’d say the first lesson is to listen.
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I don't teach writing. I teach patience. Toughness. Stubbornness. The willingness to fail. I teach the life. The odd thing is most…
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People say you cant teach writing, but I think thats nonsense.
— Tracy Kidder
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I teach writing courses and first of all, I teach my students what prosody is.
— Theodore Sturgeon
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When I teach writing, I always tell my students you should assume that the audience you're writing for is smarter than you.…
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When I began to be published, people got the idea that I should 'teach writing,' which I have no idea how to…
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I would love to see writing taught online because at university like Yale, there are not enough teachers who are able to…
— David Gelernter
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I'm an ecumenical reader, grew up with all sorts of fiction, teach writing, went to the Iowa Writers' Workshop, so my tastes…
— Justin Cronin
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