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It really wasn't until I was in college when I began to write more and more, and I realized I was scheduling my entire life around my writing. — Rita Dove

College is great. It's the only time in life where you can write a check for 39 cents ... and bounce it. — Henry Cho

I minored in creative writing in college, and I've played with the idea of doing something more hybrid, but comics are my first love. — Gene Luen Yang

I was a much better writer than I was an athlete. My college coach told me flat out, he said, "Deford, you write basketball better than you play it." — Frank Deford

To be a writer you have to write
and no academic degree is going to do the writing for you. — Michelle Richmond

Read a short story every day. By the end of the week you would have read volumes of stories. — Lailah Gifty Akita

As a kid, I was just writing scripts and taking whatever film classes I could in college. — Damien Chazelle

I had a job right out of college writing for a small newspaper called 'The Unterrified Democrat.' Ghastly, ghastly job. — Cullen Bunn

I guess that would have been 1968. I was a freshman in college and I wasn't writing good poems, but I was at least trying to write poems then. — Edward Hirsch

My dad was an adventurer, my mother a romantic. When they met in college, both were creative writers; the writing was a bond. — Brian Herbert

I love writing about the summer between high school and college. It's the last gasp of really being a teen. — Sarah Dessen

Take a great adventure to a place, learn the rich history and make your own observation about the place. — Lailah Gifty Akita

I wanted to be a singer. I wanted to be a musician. I wanted to travel and write songs and be a good songwriter. It came to me slowly after college. — Brett Dennen

I went to college, though I didn't take many writing courses. — Walter Jon Williams

I'd been in college studying English creative writing and history when I made the decision to join the Marines in the runup to the Iraq war. — Phil Klay

I graduated with a B.A. from Goddard College in 1991 and then studied poetry for a year in the M.F.A. in Writing Program at Vermont College. — Jennifer McMahon

When I went to college I took a creative writing class and decided in a week to be a writer. — David Guterson

I tried writing fiction as a little kid, but had a teacher humiliate me, so didn't write again until I was a senior in college. — Janet Fitch

I've lost my writing skills since college. I couldn't write a book. It would take a long time. — Stephen Malkmus

I discovered Christopher Isherwood in college. His writing style is so direct, warm, and inclusive. — Claire Danes

Nick wanted to meet on campus at Love Library. (That was the actual name; thank you for your donation, Mayor Don Lathrop Love.) — Rainbow Rowell

I see the beatitudes of books displayed on a bookshelf. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Cheekbones that cut like ice and eyes like liquid scotch. Loren Hale is an alcoholic beverage and he doesn't even know it. — Krista Ritchie

I went to college and studied writing, and I got involved in theater. It's always been my passion. — Raymond Cruz

It's not a college degree that makes a writer. The great thing is to have a story to tell. — Polly Adler

I discovered Orson Welles in college; my freshman English professor screened 'Citizen Kane' for us, and I wound up writing a 20-page term paper on it. — Claire Danes

Although my other ambition was to be a musical theater star (and I would attend college on a voice scholarship), writing was never far from my mind. — Alex Flinn

I did a minor in creative writing in college, but I didn't start writing until I stayed at home with my own children. — Vanessa Diffenbaugh

Read everything. Read fiction and non-fiction, read hot best sellers and the classics you never got around to in college. — Jennifer Weiner

I went to college, but I learned to write by reading and writing. — Daniel Pinkwater

I took a writing class in college, liked it, and my first year out of school I couldn't get a job, so I wrote a play. — Zoe Kazan

You don't need to see my birth certificate, or my college records, or my legal writings, or ... anything. — Barack Obama

Education stimulates self-study. — Lailah Gifty Akita

I started writing after college, slowly, secretly writing. — Jhumpa Lahiri

As a teenager, I wanted to write novels. By college, it was theater, plays, and then, shortly, it was film. — Richard Linklater

He wastes his time over his writing, trying to accomplish what geniuses and rare men with college educations sometimes accomplish. — Jack London

For those two years in college I was constantly singing and writing and playing in coffee houses and stuff. — Dan Fogelberg

Everyone is taught the essentials of writing for at least 13 years, maybe more if they go to college. Nobody is taught music or tap dancing that way. — Tom Wolfe

I don't remember writing anything until I wrote my college application. — Tony Gilroy

I majored in Creative Writing in college. Then I got over it. — Donald E. McQuinn

Well, my background is journalism. I don't have any creative-writing experience except for one class I took as a sophomore in college. — Dave Eggers

Why use long words when short ones will do? Not all readers have been to college or university. — Ken Scott

I was an English major in college, took a ton of creative writing courses, and was a newspaper reporter for 10 years. — Jennifer Weiner

There is nothing better than expressions in words. — Lailah Gifty Akita

For a person whose sole burning ambition is to write - like myself - college is useless beyond the Sophomore year. — William Styron

I went to school for creative writing in college, and I wound up about six hours short of my degree. — Jason Isbell

I was a fine arts major in college, and a painter for many years. And I found that, like writing, art is very similar. — Kami Garcia

I wrote a fair amount of poetry in college. It was really, really bad. I mean, bad. And that's how I found out - by doing it. — John McPhee

I first started writing fiction in college because I was attracted to beautiful sentences. I loved to read them. I wanted to write them. — Karen Thompson Walker