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"Harvard takes perfectly good plums as students, and turns them into prunes."
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"For one thing, I teach my students what my teacher for twenty years, Paul Gavert, told me, 'The voice follows... the voice follows everything about you... who you are.'"
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"I have taught students from the New York City area so long I have a special affinity and rapport with them. It surprises me sometimes that there are students from anywhere else."
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"Today's tax cuts provide yet another illustration of the Republicans' fiscally irresponsible economic policies that ignore the needs of America's middle class, students, and working families."
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"Blue cheese contains natural amphetamines. Why are students not informed about this?"
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"I feel that I learned far more from my students than I could possibly have taught them."
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"Students don't know who Mark Twain was because he wasn't on the test."
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"All Southern state colleges and universities are open to black students."
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"I teach writing courses and first of all, I teach my students what prosody is."
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"During my McGill years, I took a number of math courses, more than other students in chemistry."
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"For years, I thought I simply didn't dream. I felt left out. Everybody else had a thing I didn't have."
Thought


"I find to my mixed astonishment that I do dream, but I didn't know it."
Dream


"You must write to the people's expertise."
People


"Some major writers have a huge impact, like Ayn Rand, who to my mind is a lousy fiction writer because her writing has no compassion and virtually no humor. She has a philosophical and economical message that she is passing off as fiction, but it really isn't fiction at all."
Humor


"I teach writing courses and first of all, I teach my students what prosody is."
Students


"There is no way of writing stories that I haven't done."
Writing


"There are people who have tremendously important things to say, but they say it so poorly that nobody would ever want to read it."
People


"I wrote the very first stories in science fiction which dealt with homosexuality, The World Well Lost and Affair With a Green Monkey."
Science


"You have to study your field and you have to find out how other people do it, and you have to keep working and learning and practicing and ultimately, you would be able to do it."
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"There are a lot of people who write very intensely about things they do not and cannot do."
People
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