I worry that people think you have to go to a university…

What you learn at university is a good discipline but has little relevance to a real job.

— Chris Liddell

Princeton is a sublime undergraduate university. It has a good architecture school.

— Emilio Ambasz

Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them.

— Anonymous

“Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. There's many…

— Flannery O'Connor

I think the University of Texas has the chance to become the finest public university in the country.

— Tom Hicks

I learned to write by reading the kind of books I wished I'd written.

— Barbara Kingsolver

I learned to write by writing. I tended to do anything as long as it felt like an adventure, and to stop when it…

— Neil Gaiman

“I learned to write nice as hell. Birds an' stuff like that, too; not just word writin'. My ol' man'll be sore when he…

— John Steinbeck

I learned to write by writing.

— Neil Gaiman

I really learned how to write from Robert Louis Stevenson, Anthony Trollope, and de Maupassant.

— Louis L'Amour

I learned to write by listening to people talk. I still feel that the best of my writing comes from having heard rather than…

— Gayl Jones

“When I started to learn how to read, I discovered the same kind of power. I could create an environment that I didn't have,…

— Donald Richie

I got put on jury duty, which is where I learned how to write.

— David O. Russell

With Bernstein, because we wound up always working music first, it was where I really feel I learned how to write lyrics as a…

— Stephen Schwartz

I learned that you can't write a book in the margins of your life. I'd forgotten how much uninterrupted time it takes to write…

— Melissa Harris-Perry