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Jeff
Carr
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Idaho Falls, ID
English: Creative Writing
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
"How vain it is to sit down and write when you have not stood up to live." - Thoreau.
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Katie DeMonja
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Brigham City, UT
English: Professional and Technical Writing
The Luck of the Bodkins by Pelham Grenville Wodehouse
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If a writer is any good, what he makes will have its source in a realm much larger than that
which his conscious mind can encompass and will always be a greater suprise to him than it can ever be to his reader. - Flannery O'Connor
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Michael B. Diezmos
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Philadelphia, PA / The Philippines
American Studies: Children's Folklore
The Little Prince |
"The great thing about plans is that you can change them" and "Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far they can go."
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Ali
Drake
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Farmington, UT
English: Secondary Education
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
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"I love that writing is never a finished product, only a work in progress. As you grow, develop, and change so does your writing."
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Scott
Ficklin
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Las Vegas, NV
English: Creative Writing
East of Eden by John Steinbeck
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"All writers are vain, selfish and lazy, and at the very bottom of their motives lies a mystery. Writing ... is a long, exhausting struggle, like a long bout of some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand." - George Orwell
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Clarissa
Fidler
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Everett, WA
English: Professional and Technical Writing
Rebecca by Daphne DuMauriere
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"I write for the same reason I breath. If I didn't, I would die" I love working at Writing Center because I get to make valuable connections with great people and help them become better writers overall. |
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Samuel
Howard
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Cedar Hills, UT
Literature and Writing
The Earth is Enough by Harry Middleton
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Kevin
Larsen
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Orem, UT
English: Creative Writing
The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
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"By now, it is probably very late at night, and you have stayed up to read this book
when you should have gone to sleep. If this is the case, then I commend you for falling into my trap. It is a writer's greatest pleasure to hear that someone was kept up until the unholy house of the morning reading one of his [or her] books. It goes back to authors being terrible people who delight in the suffering of others. Plus we get a kickback from the caffeine industry..." - Brandon Sanderson |
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Aubrey Loomis |
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Ogden, UT
English: Literary Studies
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| “Writing is how I express my inner feelings with time to decide exactly I want to say. I love writing! ” |
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Paul
Malouf
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Logan, UT
Interdisciplinary Studies
The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury
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| “I write to see how I think. I write therefore I am.” |
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Christina
Mason
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West Covina, CA
English: Professional and Technical Writing
Tenderheaded: A Comb-Bending Collection of Hair Stories by Juliette Harris
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When I was in the sixth grade, my brother asked me why I read so much. I had replied, "Reading takes me into another world." He gave me a strange look, and then laughed as he walked out of the kitchen. Years later, I still try to write as if I'm creating another world for myself, and hopefully the reader will see what I try to create;I want the reader to experience a story the way I have since I was a kid.
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Audrey
Merket
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Brigham City, UT
English: Secondary Education
Fahrenheit 451
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| "A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the other one." - Baltasar Gracián |
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Jared
Odd
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Richland, WA
Literature and Writing: Rhetoric and Composition
Wit by Margaret Edson
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“What [writing] involves is one person earnestly attempting to communicate with another. Implicitely, then, it involves the reader as much as the writer, since the success of the communication depends solely on how the reader receives it. Also, since more than one person is involved, and since all of us have feelings, it has to be as subject to the basic rules of good manners as any other human relationship. . . ."
"The big breakthrough for the novice writer, then will occur at the moment he begins to comprehend the social implications of what he's doing. Far from writing in a vacuum, he is conversing, in a very real sense, with another human being, just as I am conversing right now with you, even though that person--like you--may be hours, or days, or even years away in time.” - John R. Trimble
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Jared
Roller
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Garden Grove, CA
English: Professional and Technical Writing
Eats, Shoots & Leaves by Lynne Truss
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“"Expectation is what [the semicolon and colon] are about; expectation and elastic energy.
Like internal springs, they propel you forward in a sentence towards more information, and
the essential difference between them is that while the semicolon lightly propels you in any direction related to the foregoing ('Whee! Surprise me!'), the colon nudges you along lines
already subtly laid down. How can such useful marks be optional, for heaven's sake?"
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Lani
Rush
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Piqua, OH / Layton, UT
American Studies
The Counte of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
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"Be yourself. Above all, let who you are, what you are, what you believe shine though every
sentence you write, every piece you finish." - John Jakes |
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Stephen
Worthington
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Cedar City, UT
Social Studies: Composite Teaching
Ransom Trilogy by C.S. Lewis
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"One must be honest somewhere. I wish
to be honest in poetry.
With the written word.
Where I can say and cross out
and say over and say round
and say on top of and say in between
and say in symbol, in riddle,
in double meaning, under masks
of any feature, in the skins
of every creature." - May Swenson
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