Careers Quote by Alexander Chee

Undergraduate writers seem to be, in a way, more open to letting themselves just write.

— David Means

This sounds like a cliche, but I always wanted to write. After college, I did some writing and realized very quickly that it's hard…

— Hooman Majd

I spent several years acquiring the obsessive, day-to-day discipline that's needed if you want to write professionally, then several more, highly valuable years studying…

— John Dalton

I have no formal training as a writer at all, not even a single English class in college. However, my adult books are all…

— Scott Westerfeld

I entered the literary world, really, from outside. My entire background has been in sciences; I was a biology major in college, then went…

— Khaled Hosseini

From about ninth grade on, I knew I was a writer at heart. I had fantasies of being a great novelist, but I thought…

— Kevin Maney

Fiction writing was in my blood from a very young age, but I never considered writing as a real career. I thought you had…

— James Rollins

When I was in high school and college, my other real focus was, actually, fiction writing. So in college, I had done all these…

— Lily Rabe

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 went to college, though I didn't take many writing courses.

— Walter Jon Williams

Since childhood, I wrote a lot of fiction, a lot of stories, but I most loved writing essays.

— Jill Lepore

I think it's hard to have a full-time job and write fiction, but for essays, you need to be in the world.

— Sloane Crosley