Academic Quote by A. S. Byatt

In actual fact, I have been an academic - a college and university teacher and scholar - for much of the last 45 years,…

— Shirley Geok-lin Lim

I held a variety of jobs - most notably ten years working in universities - and kept on writing.

— Thomas Perry

Oddly enough, I never studied writing. I studied almost everything except writing.

— Joss Whedon

I began writing as an experimental writer.

— Sandra Cisneros

I went to school to study literature and writing, even though I didn't end up really doing that in the end.

— Gaby Hoffmann

I really am a very research-oriented writer.

— Eric Kripke

Like most writers, I write about what has happened to me as that involves the minimum amount of research.

— Steven Moffat

I always had a thing for writing. Even when I was in school, I was always good at writing.

— Jay IDK

Wrote my first "novel" when I was six. Studied a bit in college, but then pursued history... But when I started writing professionally, it…

— David B. Coe

Writing wasn't easy to start. After I finally did it, I realized it was the most direct contact possible with the part of myself…

— Virpi Hameen-Anttila

I went to college, but I learned to write by reading - and writing.

— Daniel Pinkwater

I was a scholarship minor public school day boy at Ardingly College and later Whitgift School. Then, straight into work as a journalist -…

— Neil Gaiman