Young writers should be encouraged to write, and discouraged from thin…

Wallace Stegner
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Young writers should be encouraged to write, and discouraged from thinking they are writers. If they arrive at college with literary ambitions, they should be told that everything they have done since their first childhood poems, printed in the school paper, has been preparation for entering a long, long apprenticeship. ✨ On Teaching and Writing Fiction.
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