Writing is revising ( Donald Murray) ............ A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people (Thomas Mann) ............ Writing about an idea frees me of it. Thinking about it is a circle of repetitions. (Mason Cooley) ............ Writing is the action of thinking (Barbara Ueland) ............ Writing is manual labor of the mind: a job, like laying pipe. (John Gregory Dunne) ............ In writing songs I've learned as much from Cezanne as I have from Woody Guthrie. (Bob Dylan) ............ No stile of writing is so delightful as that which is all pith, which never omits a necessary word, nor uses an unnecessary one. (Thomas Jefferson) ............ If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it. (Tennessee Williams) ............ To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it s about, but the inner music that words make. (Truman Capote) ............ Talking is a hydrant in the yard and writing is a faucet upstairs in the house. Opening the first takes the pressure off the second. (Robert Frost) ............ Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man. (Francis Bacon) ............ I almost always urge people to write in the first person . Writing is an act of ego and you might as well admit it. (William Zinsser) ............  it appears to me that problems, inherent in any writing, loom unduly large when one looks ahead. (Elizabeth Bowen) ............ Have common sense and stick to the point.  (Somerset Maugham) ............ I must write it all out, at any cost. Writing is thinking. It is more than living, for it is being conscious of living. (Anne Morrow Lindbergh) ............

Current Information:

Last class day: July 30

Fall 2008:
Enrollment begins: July 14

Fall classes begin: August 21

Last day to add a class:
September 1

Last day to withdraw with refund: September 8

Last day to withdraw with no grade: October 27
 

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