Boys Quote by 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.

— Anonymous

Young writers take themselves very seriously in college.

— Kyle Kinane

Young gentlemen with literary aspirations usually start a new university magazine, which for wit and pungency is designed to eclipse all such previous efforts,…

— E. F. Benson

“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

“Whether white, black, Asian, or Latino, American students rarely arrive at college as habitual readers, which means that few of them have more than…

— David Denby

Now, practically all reviewers have academic aspirations. The people from the universities are used to a captive audience, but the literary journalist has to…

— V. S. Pritchett

“Never try to keep it professional, keep it smutty, write with bodily fluids on sandpaper, and damn the men with clipboards in white suits,…

— Peter Selgin

Nonfiction writers are second-class citizens, the Ellis Island of literature. We just can't quite get in. And yes, it pisses me off.

— William Styron

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

— Flannery O'Connor

In my travels I am often asked if college stifles young writers. In my opinion, it doesn't stifle them enough.

— Flannery O'Connor

Writing is for men who can think and feel, not mindless sensation seekers out of nightclubs and bars. But these are bad times. We…

— Naguib Mahfouz

I am opposed to writing about the private lives of living authors and psychoanalyzing them while they are alive. Criticism is getting all mixed…

— Ernest Hemingway