"I taught writing classes at the University of Pennsylvania for a number of years and I realized that all you can do is encourage people and give them assignments and hope they will write them."

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Paula Fox

#Writing Quotes #Years Quotes #Class Quotes

“Can you join, ask sincerely for affection without sweaty hand of expectation, understanding and accepting if it never is given?”
“You get a checklist, and then you just sort of ride herd on it. It's just a few items on a single sheet of paper.”
“You can't get something for nothing. Everybody remembers this except politicians.”
“To her friends said the Bright one in chatter, "I have learned something new about matter: My speed was so great, Much increased was my weight, Yet I failed to become any fatter!"”
“Yeah, but now suddenly - you know, universities are notoriously market oriented, too.”
“To do anything, it is first necessary to be doing nothing.”

Source : Nancy Hale (1957). “Heaven and Hardpan Farm”
“I think I have a repressed bent for the military, I like discipline without question, specific schedules and duties.”
“I hate dogma in any form. I hated it in the Catholic Church and Girl Scout troops of the 1950s, and I hate in in gay activism and established feminism today.”

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