"It is painful to imagine what our literature would be like if it were written by academic teachers of 'creating writing' courses,* whose main experience was to have been themselves trained in such courses."

-- Richard Hofstadter, Anti-Intellectualism in American Life (NY: Knopf, 1963), p. 427.

[*later called "creative writing" courses; Hofstadter was profoundly prophetic]