“I hope when people ask what you’re going to do with your English degree and/or creative writing degree you’ll say: ‘Continue my bookish examination of the contradictions and complexities of human motivation and desire;’ or maybe just: ‘Carry it with me, as I do everything that matters.’ And then smi…”— Cheryl Strayed, amazon.com
“Writing is not like chemical engineering. We shouldn’t learn the figures of speech the way we learn the periodic table of elements. We shouldn’t because we are learning not about hypothetical structures in things, but about real potentialities within our language, within ourselves.”— Arthur Quinn, amazon.com