You canโ€™t learn to write in college. Itโ€™s a very bad place for writers because the teachers always think they know more than you doโ€”and they donโ€™t. They have prejudices. They may like Henry James, but what if you donโ€™t want to write like Henry James? They may like John Irving, for instance, whoโ€™s the bore of all time. A lot of the people whose work theyโ€™ve taught in the schools for the last thirty years, I canโ€™t understand why people read them and why they are taught.

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