#writing

Given the devaluation of literature and of the study of foreign languages per se in the United States, as well as the preponderance of theory over text in graduate literature studies, creative writing programs keep literature courses populated. ↗

— Marilyn Hacker

#creative #creative writing #creative writing programs #foreign #foreign languages

Sometimes I can spend as long revising a manuscript as I spent writing it in the first place. ↗

— Margaret Haddix

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Language is political. That's why you and me, my Brother and Sister, that's why we supposed to choke our natural self into the weird, lying, barbarous, unreal, white speech and writing habits that the schools lay down like holy law. ↗

— June Jordan

#brother #brother and sister #choke #down #habits

I've often been accused of making anthropology into literature, but anthropology is also field research. Writing is central to it. ↗

— Clifford Geertz

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I think of myself as a writer who happens to be doing his writing as an anthropologist. ↗

— Clifford Geertz

#doing #happens #his #i #i think

I'm writing a review of three books on feminism and science, and it's about social constructionism. So I would say I'm a social constructionist, whatever that means. ↗

— Clifford Geertz

#books #feminism #i #means #review

If I remember correctly, a writer is someone who wants to convey information. Language or writing is a code. ↗

— Clifford Geertz

#convey #correctly #i #i remember #information

For me, at least, fiction is the only way i can even begin to twist my lying memories into something true. ↗

— John Green

#memories #true-story #writing #writing-life #life

My lab and academic work fill my day from about 9 am to 7 p.m. Then I zoom out the lens to work on my other writing. ↗

— David Eagleman

#academic #am #day #fill #i

I'm working seven days a week in the fall. I couldn't possibly keep that up. This is only for the fall. In the last couple of years I've tended to do most of my serious writing in the winter, when there's nothing going on with football. ↗

— Gregg Easterbrook

#days #fall #football #going #i