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My first letter of acceptance, to UMass - Amherst, came with an offer of a fellowship and a note from John Edgar Wideman.

~Alexander Chee

Topics: Acceptance Amherst Came Edgar Fellowship First John Letter Note Offer

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I had a little portable typewriter. I call it my Harlem Literary Fellowship.

~Amiri Baraka

Topics: Call Fellowship Had Harlem Literary Little Portable Typewriter

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In 1989, I had a fellowship to teach for Yale in China for two years. I came back from California to New Haven to spend the summer learning Chinese, but because of Tiananmen Square, Yale cancelled the program.

~Amor Towles

Topics: Back Because California Came Cancelled China Chinese Fellowship Had Haven Learning New Program Spend Square Summer Teach Two Yale Years I Came

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I'm a simple hillbilly. I don't like eating modern, industrialized, fast food. I grew up eating home-cooked food. So when I'm traveling abroad, like when I recently received a six-month writing fellowship to Iowa in the U.S., I like to cook my own food.

~Andrea Hirata

Topics: Abroad Cook Eating Fast Fast Food Fellowship Food Grew Hillbilly Industrialized Iowa Like Modern My Own Own Received Recently Simple Traveling Up Writing

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As a journalist I'm comfortable doing library research, and I did a lot! I had a fellowship at Radcliff for a year which gave me access to the Harvard system.

~Anita Diament

Topics: Access Comfortable Did Doing Fellowship Gave Had Harvard Journalist Library Lot Me Research System Which Year

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Kindliness and sympathy, fellowship and understanding, are always good, but best when they come from a distant corner of the world.

~Archibald Hill

Topics: Always Best Come Corner Distant Fellowship Good Sympathy Understanding World

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Thus united to them in the fellowship of life, he will both understand the things revealed to them by God and, thenceforth escaping the peril that threatens sinners in the judgment, will receive that which is laid up for the saints in the kingdom of heaven.

~Athanasius

Topics: Both Escaping Fellowship God He Heaven Judgment Kingdom Laid Life Peril Receive Revealed Saints Sinners Them Things Threatens Thus Understand United Up Which Will

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In 1980 I sent a play, 'Jitney,' to the Playwrights' Center in Minneapolis, won a Jerome Fellowship, and found myself sitting in a room with sixteen playwrights. I remember looking around and thinking that since I was sitting there, I must be a playwright, too.

~August Wilson

Topics: Around Center Fellowship Found Looking Must Myself Play Playwright Playwrights Remember Room Sent Since Sitting Sixteen Thinking Too Won I Remember

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I didn't study science beyond high school level, but I'd been reading a lot of science books by people like Richard Dawkins, Matt Ridley and Daniel Dennett. I also spent a year working on a fellowship in a research centre - the Allan Wilson Centre - where I got a hands-on look at their work sequencing DNA.

~Bernard Beckett

Topics: Also Been Beyond Books Centre Daniel Fellowship Got Hands-On High High School Level Like Look Lot Matt People Reading Research Richard School Science Spent Study Where Wilson Work Working Year Dna

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I used my NEA fellowship to write my novel, 'In Country,' which was published by Harper & Row in 1985.

~Bobbie Ann Mason

Topics: Country Fellowship Novel Published Row Used Which Write

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