Class Quote by Richard Hugo

“A creative writing class may be one of the last places you can go where your life still matters.” quote by Richard Hugo — Download Open image

“A creative writing class may be one of the last places you can go where your life still matters.”

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“The imagination is a cynic.”

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“…I’ve seen the world tell us with wars and real estate developments and bad politics and odd court decisions that our lives don’t matter.…

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An act of imagination is an act of self-acceptance.

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Maximum sentence length: seventeen words. Minimum:one No semicolons. Semicolons indicate relationships that only idiots need defined by punctuation. Besides, they are ugly. Make sure…

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A good creative-writing teacher can save a good writer a lot of time.

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