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Charlie Stella, about starting an MFA program at 55:

I truly love it. And who cares whether or not I can pay the loans back some day. I'm friggin' 55 with a life expectancy of 68 years. Like Tommy Burns might say (about that unpaid loan), "What they gonna' do, arrest me? Fuck'em."

I love Charlie Stella. Love his books, love his integrity, love his 5-2 reading pattern, love his attitude on writing (and, for that matter, everything else).

I'm even thinking about going back for an MFA myself. Just thinking, mind, but no one else on earth but Charlie Stella could even make me think it.