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- Nov 07, 2020
I did a minor in creative writing in college, but I didn't start writing until I stayed at home with my own children.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father's father wrote for a Philadelphia newspaper and aspired to be a playwright. We had in our house a couple of crazy unproduced plays that he had written. For the one creative writing class I took in my life, I didn't do any writing - I decided that I would plagiarize his terrible play to not fail the class.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I worry that people think you have to go to a university to be a good writer, which is categorically untrue. I don't think I learned how to write at Oxford. I did not go to any creative writing classes or anything.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was never forced to write. At least, I was never forced or even encouraged to write fiction. Creative writing wasn't in the curriculum at my school when I was in sixth grade.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't think American poetry has gotten any better in the past 35 years. Oddly enough, creative writing programs seem to have been good for fiction, and I would not have predicted that.
- Creative
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- Nov 07, 2020
I majored in English with a specialization in creative writing along with Asian American Studies.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was at UCLA, a professor there encouraged me to write, and so I looked into specializing in creative writing in the English Department. And through that, I started writing plays.
- Decision
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'd been in college studying English creative writing and history when I made the decision to join the Marines in the runup to the Iraq war.
- College
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- Nov 07, 2020
I got out of college and I went to get my master's in creative writing at San Francisco State. I was working as an actor at the Actor's Workshop, being abused as a intern.
- Graduate Degree
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- Nov 07, 2020
I took my first creative writing class when I was 24, then went onto to get a graduate degree in poetry. I've sort of never looked back from there.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
I fell into playwriting accidentally, took some classes in it, and also took creative writing classes, but I really didn't expect it to be a career because I didn't believe there was a way to make money as a playwright without being lucky and I didn't feel particularly lucky.
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
I left the University of Chicago's creative writing program for a tenure-track job at DePauw University in Indiana, then left DePauw in 2010 for Los Angeles.
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I were to go back to the Philippines, I would probably end up teaching creative writing at a university. I wouldn't be able to write, for I would become too jaded to be able to view the existing situation objectively.
- Discussed
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- Nov 07, 2020
Linda Svendsen's 'Marine Life' was important. I was nearly 22. Larry Mathews discussed the book in a creative writing class. We examined her stories, figured out how they worked.
- Poetry
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- Nov 07, 2020
Poetry is something that happens in universities, in creative writing programs or in English departments.
- Exist
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- Nov 07, 2020
The phenomenon of university creative writing programs doesn't exist in France. The whole idea is regarded as a novelty, or an oddity.
- Foreign Languages
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wonder what it means about American literary culture and its transmission when I consider the number of American poets who earn their living teaching creative writing in universities. I've ended up doing that myself.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
I started creative writing classes at Aberdeen Central Library, and the writer-in-residence there, Todd McEwen, encouraged me a great deal. He showed my stories to his editor, and I thought that was just what happened to everyone who took his classes!
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was in law school at the University of Kentucky and realized I didn't really like law school, so I took a creative writing course for something different.
- Poetry
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always written. When I was in school, the only teacher who ever liked me was my creative writing teacher. I used to enter poetry competitions, and I don't think I ever lost one. So I had the idea for a while of being some kind of poet.
- Creative
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was an English major in college, took a ton of creative writing courses, and was a newspaper reporter for 10 years.
- Nov 07, 2020
I went to school for creative writing in college, and I wound up about six hours short of my degree.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm often asked how I write books, but I don't think my approach is suitable for everyone. If I walked into a creative writing class, all I could say to them was 'I tend to make it up as I go along.' I'm not sure that's brilliant advice.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
For the last few years, I've enjoyed writing my own stuff since studying creative writing at school, and as I've grown up, I've realised how much I enjoy escaping into a world that I've created myself. So I've kept that up as a hobby.
- High
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- Nov 07, 2020
I studied writing at NYU. I graduated high school in Nashville and then went to the creative writing program, and in the first year, that's when I wrote 'Kids.'
- School
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- Nov 07, 2020
In high school, I started training, singing with choirs, and getting voice lessons and doing a lot of creative writing and decided that that's really what I wanted to pursue as a career, and that's what I was going to study.
- First Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I minored in creative writing in college, and I've played with the idea of doing something more hybrid, but comics are my first love.
- Remember
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- Nov 07, 2020
I remember telling my creative writing teacher that you never want to have a journal, because if you lose it, then someone's going to know all your secrets. And then she stopped using a journal, but I always write everything down... Anytime I travel, I try and fill up notepads.
- Filipino
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- Nov 07, 2020
For decades, as literary editor, I have followed the growth of our creative writing in English. In my Solidaridad Bookshop, half of my stock consists of Filipino books written in English and in the native languages.
- Flat Out
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- Nov 07, 2020
One professor in college told me flat out I wasn't good enough to enter the creative writing program. I saved that letter and promised myself I would send it back to her when my first book came out.
- Creative
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most applicants to creative writing programs submit stories about the angst of their suburban childhoods.
- Fiction Writers
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I taught at the University of Houston in the Creative Writing program, we required the poets to take workshops in fiction writing, and we required the fiction writers to take workshops in poetry.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't know much about creative writing programs. But they're not telling the truth if they don't teach, one, that writing is hard work, and, two, that you have to give up a great deal of life, your personal life, to be a writer.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I loathe the trivialization of poetry that happens in creative writing classes. Teachers set exercises to stimulate subject matter: Write a poem about an imaginary landscape with real people in it. Write about a place your parents lived in before you were born. We have enough terrible poetry around without encouraging more of it.
- Creative
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I went to college I took a creative writing class and decided in a week to be a writer.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I teach a lot of graduate creative writing classes, and on the first day, I like to go around the room and ask everybody what's the last book you've read that you really loved. And all of the women tend to give me chick lit titles. And to me, that's sort of disappointing because it's their only exposure to fiction somehow.
- Loved
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always loved writing, be it creative writing for school or just poetry. I just loved writing, and in college, I started really trying to write songs and was copying other artists, just to figure it out - but I think freshman year of high school is when I realized, 'I want to be a writer. I have something to say.'
- Journalism
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- Nov 07, 2020
And after about two years, I realized that creative writing was not going to help you ace those biological tests. So I switched over to journalism. I didn't graduate with honors, but I did graduate on time and with some doing.
- Flew
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- Nov 07, 2020
I flew into a small airport surrounded by cornfields and pastures, ready to carry out the two commands my father had written out for me the night before I left Calcutta: Spend two years studying creative writing at the Iowa Writers' Workshop, then come back home and marry the bridegroom he selected for me from our caste and class.
- Half
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- Nov 07, 2020
After finishing my undergraduate work at the University of Iowa, where I took creative writing classes taught by Writer's Workshop students, I applied to half a dozen MFA writing programs.
- Class
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- Nov 07, 2020
I took an MA course in creative writing a couple of years back, and I was definitely in the bottom of the class.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020