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WVU This Week June 20, 2012

Amy Hempel Quote of the Week

"Sometimes I can better describe a person by another person's reaction. In a story in my first book, I couldn't think of a way to sufficiently describe the charisma of a certain boy, so the narrator says, "I knew girls who saved his gum." Amy Hempel (December 14, 1951) is an American short story writer, journalist, and teaches creative writing at Bennington College and at Harvard University

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WVU This Week June 13, 2012

Ray Bradbury Quote of the Week

"Love. Fall in love and stay in love. Write only what you love, and love what you write. The key word is love. You have to get up in the morning and write something you love, something to live for.” Ray Bradbury (August 22, 1920 – June 5, 2012) was an American fantasy, horror, science fiction, and mystery writer. RIP If you have a favorite Writer's quote you'd like to share for Quote of the Week send to This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it . Be sure to include name of author, birth/death date, and your name.

WVU This Week June 6, 2012

Larry McMurty Quote of the Week

"You expect far too much of a first sentence. Think of it as analagous to a good country breakfast: what we want is something simple, but nourishing to the imagination. Hold the philosophy, hold the adjectives, just give us a plain subject and verb and perhaps a wholesome, nonfattening adverb or two."

Larry McMurtry (June 3, 1936) is an American novelist, essayist, bookseller and screenwriter whose work is predominantly set in either the old West or in contemporary Texas.

WVU This Week May 30, 2012

Quote of the Week

"But novels are never about what they are about; that is, there is always deeper, or more general, significance. The author may not be aware of this till she is pretty far along with it. A novel’s whole pattern is rarely apparent at the outset of writing, or even at the end; that is when the writer finds out what a novel is about, and the job becomes one of understanding and deepening or sharpening what is already written. That is finding the theme." Diane Johnson (April 28, 1934)

WVU This Week May 16, 2012

Quote of the Week

"One of the paradoxes of creativity [is] that in order to think originally, we must familiarize ourselves with the ideas of others."

George Kneller

(May 31, 1943)

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