Capacity Quote by Anonymous

A writer should get as much education as possible, but just going to school is not enough; if it were, all owners of doctorates…

— Gwendolyn Brooks

I'm not sure I would have ever decided to try to write when I was forty-five if I hadn't already gotten that degree [in…

— Donald Ray Pollock

I mean, what would I be doing if I couldn't write? But that fortunately hasn't proved to be the case and I can read…

— Christopher Hitchens

I never got a degree; I just started writing.

— Joe R. Lansdale

I've lost my writing skills since college. I couldn't write a book. It would take a long time.

— Stephen Malkmus

To be a writer you have to write -- and no academic degree is going to do the writing for you.

— Michelle Richmond

You cannot write unless you write much.

— W. Somerset Maugham

You need a certain amount of nerve to be a writer.

— Margaret Atwood

One can't write without having read - you have to read before beginning to write - and universities offer a very good opportunity to…

— Nathalie Sarraute

Writing is a discipline: it's almost all about holding back.

— Rachel Cusk

The more you write, the more you're capable of writing.

— Paul Theroux

PhD, MFA, self-taught—the only things you must have to become a writer are the stamina to continue and a wily, cagey heart in the…

— Alexander Chee