try telling hemingway he wrote like crap

Northwestern University is boasting that its creative writers don't use depression as a crutch, and they are fairly outspoken about their eschewing of tragedy in favor of "something beautiful in the broadest sense of the word."

Peter, a senior who is on the fiction track, agreed that depression doesn't foster the best writing. "Emotions are useful in the writing process, but if you're just writing when you're depressed, you're going to write a lot of crap," he said.

Via Large Vibrating Egg