After this I took private lessons in Italian from an elementary school teacher. He gave me themes to write about and some of them turned out so well that he told me to publish them in a newspaper.
My painting teacher in high school used to say 'I can't paint like I want to but through practice I'll get better.' But I don't think that's true. I think sometimes you just can't paint.
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Writing I'm convinced should be a subversive activity – frowned on by the authorities – and not one cooed over and praised beyond common sense by some teacher.
