College Quote by Anthony Doerr

I've never studied anything formally. I was excluded from school at the age of 17, so I am an autodidact, which is a word…

— Alan Moore

I have taught history on the high school and college levels, and am or have been a lecturer at the Smithsonian, The National Institutes…

— Jack L. Chalker

I sort of was good at writing essays. I was never very good at mathematics, and I was never very good at algebra. I…

— Diane Cilento

When it came to formal classes, I was a slacker. But I've always been a diligent autodidact and can teach myself virtually any subject…

— Dean Koontz

I was a reasonably good student in college ... My chief interests were scientific. When I entered college, I was devoted to out-of-doors natural…

— Theodore Roosevelt

I went to college, but I learned to write by reading - and writing.

— Daniel Pinkwater

I studied physics at Princeton when I was a college student, and my initial intention was to major in it but to also be…

— Jon Spaihts

I did a history degree once.

— Joe Thomas

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

— Candace Camp

In many ways, a degree in the history of ideas is the ideal training for an aspiring writer.

— Anne Fortier

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

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