I had a Creative Writing Professor that was already hippie drippy throughout the quarter (making us clap for every writer, not letting us be too critical of anything even the worst of the worst) and he had us do an anthology at the end - a Kinko's produced spiral bound one and somewhere along the line he had the brilliant idea of telling us to all write a short blurb about writing.

I said that I was inspired by Norman Mailer fucking Marilyn Monroe.