Ends Quote by Ben Fountain

I was in law school at the University of Kentucky and realized I didn't really like law school, so I took a creative writing…

— Karen Robards

I don't know if I have a memory of not thinking I was a writer - it goes that far back. I went to…

— Elizabeth Strout

I quit law in 1988 to start writing, and it took me 17 years from that point to get a book contract. I guess…

— Ben Fountain

I chose law because writing was involved. I didn't realize how boring legal writing was, but I even learned to love that.

— Marcia Clark

I wanted to be a writer, to write these stories that would make people see the world in a different way. But I ended…

— Jeffrey Skoll

Weirdly the writing experience has not really changed that much except it used to be that I was busy because I had to work…

— Bonnie Jo Campbell

I had lots of time to read [being a lawyer] what I hadn't read in my school and college days. Being a bad student…

— Khushwant Singh

I went to law school. I found it interesting for the first three weeks. By the fourth week, I found it tedious. I got…

— Demetri Martin

I had it in my head when I was in college that I wanted to be a writer, but it took me a long…

— Kate DiCamillo

Even after I'd published three books and had been writing full-time for twenty years, my father continued to urge me to go to law…

— Susan Orlean

Since I quit banking, all my major life decisions, when they could, have revolved around writing.

— Philipp Meyer

I always wanted to write. But honestly I'm glad I didn't do it back when I was twenty-five or so, when it's now clear…

— Chris Pavone