America Quote by Aleksandar Hemon

I have an English literature degree. I wanted to be the next great American novelist from a very early age, but I put it…

— Daniel Suarez

I arrived in the U.S. for graduate study in literature in the fall of 1986. I was twenty-three. After a year, I began to…

— Amitava Kumar

I'm Turkish-American; I was a freshman at Harvard in 1995 and 96. I did teach English in Hungary in the summer of 1996. I'm…

— Elif Batuman

Early on in life I knew that I was a writer, that I just wanted to write, I love books, I love literature and…

— Robert Greene

After working as a journalist I went to a writing program at Johns Hopkins. It was interesting because it was neither journalistic nor historical,…

— Iris Chang

At graduation, I assumed I'd be in publishing, but first I went to England and got a master's degree in English Literature. And then…

— Joseph Kanon

I taught English and history, so my education for that really helped prepare me for writing historical fiction.

— Candace Camp

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

I guess I've always been an aspiring novelist. I went to Princeton and wrote a novel for my thesis.

— Howard Gordon

I wrote about my journey through the country of Serbia exactly as I have always written my books, my literature.

— Peter Handke

I knew I wanted to be a writer. Where I came from, no one was a writer. I came from Long Island, and everyone…

— Howard Gordon

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