Why Teachers Matter--Stephen J. Cannell
From a news article following Cannell's untimely death:
Cannell, who was born Feb. 5, 1941 in Los Angeles, always loved writing and dreamed of becoming a novelist as a teenager - even when he was flunking English in high school.
A turning point came for him while he was a student at the University of Oregon in the early '60s and a creative writing teacher took him aside.
"He said, 'Look, it doesn't matter at all to me whether you can spell or not. As long as I can read it, that's all I require," Cannell recalled in a 1999 interview with The Dayton Daily News. "The feedback I got was so encouraging.
"After I left college - I did graduate despite my problems - he said, 'You should never quit this,' and I took him at his word."
Read more: http://www.kansascity.com/2010/10/01/2267221/stephen-j-cannell-prolific-tv.html#ixzz11AhWKV3L
Cannell, who was born Feb. 5, 1941 in Los Angeles, always loved writing and dreamed of becoming a novelist as a teenager - even when he was flunking English in high school.
A turning point came for him while he was a student at the University of Oregon in the early '60s and a creative writing teacher took him aside.
"He said, 'Look, it doesn't matter at all to me whether you can spell or not. As long as I can read it, that's all I require," Cannell recalled in a 1999 interview with The Dayton Daily News. "The feedback I got was so encouraging.
"After I left college - I did graduate despite my problems - he said, 'You should never quit this,' and I took him at his word."
Read more: http://www.kansascity.com/2010/10/01/2267221/stephen-j-cannell-prolific-tv.html#ixzz11AhWKV3L