Flannery OConnorEverywhere I go, I am asked if I think university stifles writers. My opinion is that it doesn't stifle enough of them.
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When I was in university, I always loved to write short stories and poetry, but I never had the courage to submit them for consideration by publishers. I was afraid that I would be seen as naïve or uneducated if my works were not well received by writers in the literary world. The idea of stifling writers never occurred to me.
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