Ellen Potter - One professor in college told me flat out I wasn't good enough to enter the creat...

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One professor in college told me flat out I wasn't good enough to enter the creative writing program. I saved that letter and promised myself I would send it back to her when my first book came out.

Ellen Potter

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Ein Professor an der Universität sagte mir platt, ich sei nicht gut genug, um an dem Programm für kreatives Schreiben teilzunehmen. Ich habe den Brief gerettet und mir versprochen, ihn zurückzuschicken, als mein erstes Buch herauskam.

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