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Given the devaluation of literature and of the study of foreign languages per se in the United States, as well as the preponderance of theory over text in graduate literature studies, creative writing programs keep literature courses populated.


Marilyn Hacker


#creative #creative writing #creative writing programs #foreign #foreign languages

Sometimes I can spend as long revising a manuscript as I spent writing it in the first place.


Margaret Haddix


#i #i can #long #manuscript #place

For me, at least, fiction is the only way i can even begin to twist my lying memories into something true.


John Green


#memories #true-story #writing #writing-life #life

My lab and academic work fill my day from about 9 am to 7 p.m. Then I zoom out the lens to work on my other writing.


David Eagleman


#academic #am #day #fill #i

Well, of course it was a very trying time for me, and fortunately I had a lot of people who were supportive. A lot of people who were writing and calling and saying they were praying for me. Some people sent me Scripture, and that helped.


Anita Hill


#course #fortunately #had #helped #i

All I'm writing is just what I feel, that's all. I just keep it almost naked. And probably the words are so bland.


Jimi Hendrix


#bland #feel #i #i feel #just

It certainly made a film writing career for me.


Buck Henry


#certainly #film #made #me #writing

Men wholly bent on wordly treasures were the dupes of their own passions, rather than deceived by the writings or pretenses of those who claimed to be Alchemists.


Ethan A. Hitchcock


#bent #claimed #deceived #dupes #men

Writing software that's safe even in the presence of bugs makes the challenge even more interesting.


Wietse Venema


#challenge #even #interesting #makes #more

I've always loved science fiction. I think the smartest writers are science fiction writers dealing with major things.” – Associated Press interview, 12-7-11


Walter Mosley


#science-fiction #smarts #writing #love






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