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Chris Gaither

Chris Gaither

All Writers Are Living on Borrowed Time

You can’t learn to write
because nobody knows quite how to write
 
You can’t learn to network
because everybody is already networked
 
So when you pay tuition for a writing program
you’re effectively buying free time
which
mutatis mutandis
makes you a writer

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