Better to move?

Prose says that there's no way to know if you're really going to make it as a writer. Of course she's sensible enough to say that you need to have talent and that those who are going to be writers will become writers without her classes. Which she does not teach anymore. A friend of mine who was also at the Brown/ Prose interview said that she would love to take a class with Prose in careful reading. I'm not sure. I admit that I admire Prose's courage for not following the crowd of post-structuralists who would condemn a book because its author is a bad man. Von Kleist killed his girl friend and then himself. Patricia Highsmith is an author Prose spent a summer reading and not one word did Prose say about the fact that Highsmith was a male chauvinist and an anti-Semite. I only read that in the Globe and Mail yesterday. I'm not sure I would like to take a class with Prose. After all, her book directs the reader to 50,000 pages of writing. So far, and this is only with forty-seven books read, it's taken me a year and a half. I've read other books and worked too, of course.