...writing with ferocity is a gift, provided that ferocity is a monomaniacal devotion to pursuing the truth ...

...the secret to writing is to get your own pain - shout it out till it hurts your throat - weep it into your pillow - then write it down ...

...language always occurs in a context - you can speak Elizabethan words, but to speak the language you have to put on the mindset...

...the most beautiful things don't always make you happy - often they make you weep...

...there is a myth called objective reality - we think an impersonal world exists apart from us - it doesn't - it needs us to be ...

MFA in a Box is designed to help you to find the courage to put truth into words and to understand that writing is a life-and-death endeavor — but that nothing about a life-and-death endeavor keeps it from being laugh-out-loud funny.