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What a writer needs (1993)
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G.K. Chesterton once said: If something is worth doing, it is worth doing badly. I live by this philosophy when I teach writing. It seems to me vastly more important that a student try a new technique in her writing, and use it imperfectly, than never try the technique at all.
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Writing becomes beautiful when it becomes specific, concrete.
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When students write from experience, they can breathe those specifics into their writing- dialect, odd smells, precise names of plants- that can animate even the most tired and tedious text.
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You don't learn to write by going through a series of preset writing exercises. You learn to write by grappling with a real subject that truly matters to you.
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Nobody ever did anything very foolish except from some strong principle.
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March 17, 1953
(age 71)
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