Grades are a problem. On the most general level, they're an explicit acknowledgment that what you're doing is insufficiently interesting or rewarding for you to do it on your own. Nobody ever gave you a grade for learning how to…

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No matter what we call it, poison is still poison, death is still death, and...

No matter what we call it, poison is still poison, death is still death, and...

For us to maintain our way of living, we must tell lies to each other...

For us to maintain our way of living, we must tell lies to each other...

Higher education is everybody's rite

Higher education is everybody's rite

What I fear and desire most in this world is passion. I fear it because...

What I fear and desire most in this world is passion. I fear it because...

Writing is really very easy. Tap a vein and bleed onto the page. Everything else...

Writing is really very easy. Tap a vein and bleed onto the page. Everything else...

Writing is really very easy. Tap a vein and bleed onto the page. Everything else...

Writing is really very easy. Tap a vein and bleed onto the page. Everything else...

Any fool can write a novel but it takes real genius to sell it.

Any fool can write a novel but it takes real genius to sell it.

If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's...

If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's...

If you're going to write, don't pretend to write down. It's going to be the...

If you're going to write, don't pretend to write down. It's going to be the...

Most of us can read the writing on the wall; we just assume it's addressed...

Most of us can read the writing on the wall; we just assume it's addressed...

I've been aware of death since I was a little girl. My only regret willl...

I've been aware of death since I was a little girl. My only regret willl...

Writing and rewriting are a constant search for what it is one is saying

Writing and rewriting are a constant search for what it is one is saying

Sit down and put down everything that comes into your head and then you're a...

Sit down and put down everything that comes into your head and then you're a...

He does not write at all whose poems no man reads

He does not write at all whose poems no man reads

Love. Fall in love and stay in love. Write only what you love, and love...

Love. Fall in love and stay in love. Write only what you love, and love...

Writers will happen in the best of families.

Writers will happen in the best of families.

I am never going to have anything more to do with politics or politicians. When...

I am never going to have anything more to do with politics or politicians. When...

Writing is a difficult trade which must be learned slowly by reading great authors; by...

Writing is a difficult trade which must be learned slowly by reading great authors; by...

I've given my memoirs far more thought than any of my marriages. You can't divorce...

I've given my memoirs far more thought than any of my marriages. You can't divorce...

Most people are unable to write because they are unable to think, and they are...

Most people are unable to write because they are unable to think, and they are...