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"College had little effect on me. I'd have been the same writer if I'd gone to MIT, except I'd have flunked out sooner."
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"My teaching began in 1936 at Iowa State College where T. W. Schultz was the department chairman."
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"One half who graduate from college never read another book."
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"The role of a liberal arts college within a university is to be a genuine part of that university, giving and responding to the other parts."
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"My favorite NBA team are the houston rockets and favorite college team are the duke blue devils."
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"I went to college in Mississippi; I'm from Louisiana."
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"Sounds so silly, but I want to accomplish getting my kids through college."
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"The economic piece is still missing, since it's so hard to attract industry to reservations, but spiritually and educationally, they're doing just fine. Each tribe has a community college now, and they teach the language, they teach the traditions."
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"You know, I come from six generations of college graduates."
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"I started college Pre-Med. That lasted about half a semester."
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"The college stations have a big voice, and I would like to become more involved with them. I would like to have symposiums with the members of various college radio stations."
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"It was not just that Ross Macdonald taught us how to write; he did something much more, he taught us how to read, and how to think about life, and maybe, in some small, but mattering way, how to live."
Life
"This is not a screenplay. I don't do twenty drafts. I'm not going to show this to you until it's published or accepted for publication. You can make whatever suggestions you want, but I probably will ignore them entirely."
Want
"It's tempting to say the Ph.D. didn't have an effect, but it's not so. I think whatever resonance I may be able to achieve is in part simply from the amount of reading and learning that I acquired along the way."
Knowledge
"Very few of my books are about who stole the Maltese Falcon."
Books
"'All Our Yesterdays' was unquestionably the best work I have ever done. And the reading public stayed away in droves."
Reading
"College had little effect on me. I'd have been the same writer if I'd gone to MIT, except I'd have flunked out sooner."
College
"Well, you give me too much credit for foresight and planning. I haven't got a clue what the hell I'm doing."
Uncertainty
"Send it to someone who can publish it. And if they won't publish it, send it to someone else who can publish it! And keep sending it! Of course, if no one will publish it, at that point you might want to think about doing something other than writing."
Want
"Sure, I have advice for people starting to write. Don't. I don't need the competition."
People
"For David Parker and Daniel Parker, with the respect and admiration of their father, who grew up with them."
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