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| i like mondays & bike rides & long walks on the beach |
The worst thing about academic writers and people who teach writing or living within an academic atmosphere is that it shears them of a base. People think after they teach a while that academic life is a microcosm of the rest of the world, which it very clearly isn't. It's terribly unhealthy for a writer, unless it's a writer of a particular kind. Let's say if I just continued writing poetry I would have been cornered into having to take a teaching position. Literally no one can make a living as a literary novelist. ... The people in Morrill Hall bore me. -J.H.