Top 4 Quotes & Sayings by Allen Wier

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Last updated on December 6, 2024.
Allen Wier

Allen Wier, was an American writer and a professor. He was the Watkins Endowed Visiting Writer at Murray State University from 2016 until 2020; he is Professor Emeritus having taught at the University of Tennessee from 1994 until 2015, and the University of Alabama from 1980 to 1994. and Hollins College from 1975 to 1980 and Carnegie-Mellon University from 1974 to 1975. He taught in the University of New Orleans summer writing workshop in Edinburgh, Scotland in Summer of 2013. He was visiting writer at the University of Texas in 1983 and at Florida International University 1984-1985.

Born: September 4, 1946
The moment you try to institutionalize art, it ceases to be art. — © Allen Wier
The moment you try to institutionalize art, it ceases to be art.
The call to write does not respect background or experience.
Memory is dramatic present tense. You create it as you remember it.
Literary theories will not make a writer write.
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