In college I wrote for the university newspaper, and I had…

I write as a matter of need - seven books and God knows how many short stories before anyone published me.

— Jonathan Evison

In college, I wrote maybe three short stories.

— Colson Whitehead

I wrote for my university newspaper and went on to freelance for a Los Angeles publication in my first months after graduating from UC…

— Harris Faulkner

There are many Latino writers as talented as I am, but because we are published through small presses, our books don't count. We are…

— Sandra Cisneros

I was first published in the newspaper put out by School of The Art Institute of Chicago, where I was a student. I wince…

— David Sedaris

Of all the love stories ever published, I have - realistically - read very few.

— Richard Flanagan

I've been writing fiction since I was a kid. From the age of 15 to 25, I probably wrote more than 50 short stories,…

— Amor Towles

I got a couple of stories published, but the kind of money you were making for publishing a short story, I could see I…

— Hooman Majd

I remember I had a professor in college. I wrote a great paper. Could never please this guy. But it made me better.

— Rick Santelli

When I was in college I wrote for a newspaper there called the 'Every Three Weekly,' which, like a lot of college humor papers,…

— Megan Ganz

During my last year of college I wrote the same ten pages over and over again. Those ten pages became the first few pages…

— Patricia Briggs

“In college I wrote trenchant, deep, profound epics. Then I grew up.”

— Tom Huff

Short stories do not say this happened and this happened and this happened. They are a microcosm and a magnification rather than a linear…

— Isobelle Carmody

Because that's just the way it is, and don't sleep on what you did before, you know, because it can... not hurt you, but…

— Thierry Henry

Every time I finish a song... most of the time it's in my own head, like this sounds too much like a Townes Van…

— Conor Oberst