Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
Source: In An Uncommon Scold, by Abby Adams, 1989.
-- Flannery O'Connor, (Mar 25 1925-1964), US author; She wrote fierce, funny stories of Southern locales, e.g., A Good Man is Hard to Find and Other Stories, 1955.