Quote of the Century

After Brooks and I talked with a student for less than five minutes, he said this:

"Writing is so much easier than people make it out to be."

We told him not to spend all his energy thinking about how hard his class is. We told him to focus on his point. We told him to ask questions to start thinking and to answer those questions in his writing. That's pretty much it.

When I told him that the students who sat at the computer thinking about how much they hate writing should just spend that energy writing, he said I should put that on the wall. When he said that writing is easier than people make it out, I told him I would put that on the wall. I got his name. It's going up later.