Education Quote by Anthony Doerr

Being a writer is great because you get to come up with stuff.

— Courtney A. Kemp

I'm an efficient, good, professional reporter. But I also write. And so what I try to do is write about places that I know…

— Alma Guillermoprieto

I think journalism is useful training for a writer in the way it takes the preciousness out of the pragmatic side of the craft.

— Kevin Barry

Writing is one of the few careers for which you essentially train yourself, the other two major ones being juggling and pickpocketing.

— Maureen Johnson

I think the crucial thing in the writing career is to find what you want to do and how you fit in. What somebody…

— James A. Michener

To be a writer is to connect and to play and to attempt to see clearly and understand. It astounds me regularly that feeling…

— Deb Caletti

When I went to the University of Iowa in order to be a writer, I thought, This is the worst way to learn how…

— Joe Frank

Well, my background is journalism. I don't have any creative-writing experience except for one class I took as a sophomore in college.

— Dave Eggers

Writing seems to be the only profession people imagine you can do by thinking about doing it.

— Anna Quindlen

I went into journalism in a grandiose way. I thought maybe I'd do a little journalism whilst I write the great novel of all…

— Neal Ascherson

Writing gives me the license to go, explore, and learn about the world.

— Amitava Kumar

I've spent most of my life writing and developing everything that I've wanted to be in - which is why I started writing in…

— Alex Borstein