“MFA programs spend a lot of time going on about pedigree. It’s how they reward their students, it’s how they laud their faculty, it’s how they judge their applicants. But education, no matter how important it is to educators, doesn’t seem to impress so much in the outside world.”
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“We cannot love something solely because it has been ignored. It must also be worthy of our attention.”
- Zadie Smith on not finding a story worth of the Willesden Herald Short Story Competition.
