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A lot of times students will come up to me and say, "Well, I can't write because I don't know what I think about such-and-such." And I say, "That's why you have to write." You don't wait until you know, because then who cares - it's static.

Alison Hawthorne Deming
Writing, Thinking, Waiting
Nashville Review Interview, as.vanderbilt.edu. December 1, 2012.
A lot of times students will come up to me and say, Well, I can't write because I don't know what I think about such-and-such. And I say, That's why you have to write. You don't wait until you know, because then who