"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."

-- Nicholas Delbanco

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“The foot that is familiar with the grass belongs usually to a man of lighter heart than he whose soles seldom wander from the pavement; and the best elixir vitÃ¦ is a run, as often as we can contrive it, amid the sweets of new and lovely scenery, where nature sits, fresh from the hand of the Creator, almost chiding us for our delay.”
“Public depictions of women still tend to remain rigid and narrow - about the size of a coffin, say.”

Source : Joan Frank (1994). “Desperate Women Need to Talk to You”, p.51, Conari Press
“Are you recycling? Are you!? You just killed a polar bear! YOU!”
“A man, whilst he is dreaming, believes in his dream; he is undeceived only when he is awakened from his slumber.”
“To multitudes of sufferers on beds of pain and languishing, Jesus has been the great physician to-day; in many a weeping circle around precious dust, He has been the Divine comforter, and the tears have almost ceased to flow as this Jesus has touched the bier. Dying lips have whispered His name, and the valley of the shadow has been illumined as with the glory from the celestial shores.”

Source : "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 94, 1895.
“(I am) dealing not with the particular anecdote, but rather with the Spirit of Myth, which is generic to all myths at all times.”
“After conducting a concert in a small town, I once received the following note from a farmer who had attended the performance: "Dear Sir, I wish to inform you that the man who played the long thing you pull in and out only did so during the brief periods you were looking at him."”
“Actually I never make a mistake, because it takes a huge effort for me to make a mistake.”

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