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Here I have assembled some of my favorite quotes from the three different authors assigned for the class to read.
1. Don Murray: a) "Instead of teaching finished writing, we should teach unfinished writing, and glory in its unfinishedness." b) "The writer, as he writes, is making ethical decisions. He doesn’t test his words by a rule book, but by life. He uses language to reveal the truth to himself so that he can tell it to others." c) "We have to respect the student, not for his product, not for the paper we call literature by giving it a grade, but for the search for truth in which he is engaged." 2. Maria Popova (E.B White, Ray Bradbury, Don Delillo) a) E.B. White: "A writer who waits for ideal conditions under which to work will die without putting a word on paper." b) Ray Bradbury: "My passions drive me to the typewriter every day of my life, and they have driven me there since I was twelve. So I never have to worry about schedules. Some new thing is always exploding in me, and it schedules me, I don’t schedule it. It says: Get to the typewriter right now and finish this." c) Don Delillo: "A writer takes earnest measures to secure his solitude then finds endless ways to squander it." 3. Anne Lamott: a) "All good writers write [Shitty] drafts." b) "Very few writers really know what they are doing until they've done it." c) "Almost all good writing beings with terrible first efforts."
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