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"The best possible justification for a writing class is that it should make students competent to deal with the word in all its manifestations."

"If you are a grower and a writer as well, your writing should get better and larger and wiser. But how you teach that, the Lord knows."

No offense to some of my creative writing professors, but... they could've taken some of Stegner's advice, and this should've been required reading (or if there's a recording, listening/watching) in a 100-level course.