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On becoming a writer, NY Times (May 21, 1986)
You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room.
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What it means
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Teachers can point the way, says Seuss, but much of the real learning happens alone. Expect long stretches of quiet effort in a room with nobody else. Writing, in his telling, gets built out of that solitary practice.
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