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“I had this dream to become a writer since I was a teenager.”

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Paulo Coelho, born on August 24, 1947, is a renowned Brazilian author and lyricist. His works are characterized by profound philosophical thoughts and rich imagination, with his most famous novel being 'The Alchemist'. more

“But you know, where did the Brontes go to college? Where did George Eliot go to college? Where did Thomas Paine or Thomas Jefferson or George Washington go? Did George Washington go to college? This idea which we now have that people ought to have these credentials is really ridiculous. Where did Homer go to college?”

People Knows Ideas Teaching College Ought Ridiculous Credentials Eliot Bronte Paine

Author:Jamaica Kincaid

“He said, "You have pigs in this poem; pigs are not poetic." I got up and walked out of that class and never went back.”

Said Class Teaching Poetic Pigs

Author:Carolyn Kizer

“My notion of a failed writing workshop is when everybody comes out replicating the teacher and imitating as closely as possible the great original at the head of the table. I think that's a mistake, in obvious opposition to the ideal of teaching which permits a student to be someone other than the teacher. ... The successful teacher has to make each of the students a different product rather than the same.”

Thinking Writing Different Mistake Successful Teacher Teaching Students Products Ideals Originals Tables Notion Obvious Opposition Permit Workshops Imitating Writing Workshop

Author:Nicholas Delbanco

“I have a feeling that art is something you do for yourself, and that any time you turn your decisions over to someone else you're postponing at best, your own development. The atmosphere of the workshop should be that of trying out one's own work and accepting the signals from others but not accepting the dictation of others because that is a violation of the spirit of art. Art can't be done by somebody else, it has got to be done by the artist.”

Source: The answers are inside the mountains: meditations on the writing life

“I have just been to a city in the West, a city full of poets, a city they have made safe for poets. The whole city is so lovely that you do not have to write it up to make it poetry; it is ready-made for you. But, I don't know - the poetry written in that city might not seem like poetry if read outside of the city. It would be like the jokes made when you were drunk; you have to get drunk again to appreciate them.”

Ifs Knows Writing Made Whole Seems Might Would Be Cities Written Teaching Ready Poet Safe Jokes Appreciate West Lovely Drunk

Book:Collected Poems, Prose & Plays

Source: Collected Poems, Prose & Plays

“The common workshop goal is revision, not suicide.”

Goal Common Teaching Suicide Workshops Revision

Author:Hilma Wolitzer

“A too explicit elucidation in education destroys much of the pleasure of learning. There should be room for sly hinters, masters of suggestion.”

Should Pleasure Rooms Teaching Masters Suggestions Explicit Sly

Book:Straw for the Fire: From the Notebooks of Theodore Roethke, 1943-63

Source: Straw for the Fire: From the Notebooks of Theodore Roethke, 1943-63

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

Writing May Stills Matter Lasts Class Creative Teaching Creative Writing Last Place

Author:Richard Hugo

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