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I wasn't good at the sciences; I wasn't a good enough athlete. The only thing I could do was mow lawns. So I thought…

— Owen King

I like going to schools and telling classes that when I was a child, I failed every "will this kid become a writer" test.

— Kate DiCamillo

When I went to high school, I wanted to be a designer of airplanes. But flunking out of the science high school brought me…

— Avi

However, I wasn't very good at the sciences, or didn't have a lot of help in the sciences or something but certainly didn't set…

— Jeremy Irons

I did badly in high school. I don't know why, but I failed all my exams. Then I took them again.

— Richard Quest

I felt a failure because I couldn't sustain myself from what I earned from my writing. My day jobs were what mattered, and it…

— Sandra Cisneros

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

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

— Walter Jon Williams

I had decent but not great grades in high school because I was highly motivated in some subjects, like the arts, drama, English, and…

— J. C. Chandor

I was one of those kids who looks really good on paper, I tested very well, I went to a fancy college, won some…

— Leigh Bardugo

When I was really young, my ambition wasn't to do science. I didn't really know that I could. It was to write a great…

— Barry Barish

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

— Daniel Pinkwater