You are someone and you have a right to your life.

Don't write with a pen. Ink tends to give the impression the words shouldn't be changed.

I think it's better if you write poems that look like you.

Scholars look for final truths they will never find. Creative writers concern themselves with possibilities that are always there to the receptive.

A creative writing class may be one of the last places you can go where your life still matters.

Never want to say anything so strongly that you give up the option of finding something better. If you have to say it, you will.

Maximum sentence length: seventeen words. Minimum:one No semicolons. Semicolons indicate relationships that only idiots need defined by punctuation. Besides, they are ugly. Make sure each sentence is at least four words longer or shorter than the one before it.