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Quotation of the Week: Ernest Hemingway

by Erika Dreifus on
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“From things that have happened . . . and from all things that you know and all those you cannot know, you make something through your invention that is not a representation but a whole new thing truer than anything true and alive, and you make it alive, and if you make it well enough, you give it immortality….That is why you write and for no other reason.”

–Ernest Hemingway

This quotation arrived via degrees: quoted by Joyce Carol Oates, cited by Ruth Franklin, in Bookforum (with a final hat tip to Jessica Handler).

Quotation of the Week: Scott Warnock

by Erika Dreifus on
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“There’s a lot of work out there.”

–Scott Warnock

This encouraging statement came from Scott Warnock, one of the panelists in the “Finding and Creating Online Teaching Opportunities–and Sustaining and Succeeding in Them” panel at the recent conference of the Association of Writers & Writing Programs (AWP). And Warnock knows what he is talking about: In addition to being the author of Teaching Writing Online and a member of the CCCC Committee for Best Practices in Online Writing Instruction, he is an associate professor of English and Director of the Freshman Writing Program at Drexel University, where he coordinates online and hybrid courses.

All of the panelists were excellent, and I will do my very best to provide a much more comprehensive write-up about that panel later in the week. Please stay tuned!