Thursday, November 20, 2008

What I'm learning at school

Young writers should be encouraged to write, and discouraged from thinking they are writers. If they arrive at college with literary ambitions, they should be told that everything they have done since their first childhood poems, printed in the school paper, has been preparation for entering a long, long apprenticeship.

--Wallace Stegner

Amen, Wallace. It's quite the road ahead.

3 comments:

Unknown said...

so at least you've got that to look forward to...

I hope your ipod sustains. sounds like a long journey. you could need it.

Erin said...

Amen.

Twisted Sister said...

Wow... demoralizing. :->