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The one thing they didn't tell you at Iowa is how hard it is to make a living writing fiction and poetry.

— Peter Heller

I write to be read. I'm quite direct about that. I'm not writing to thrill colleagues or to impress the professors at the University…

— Erik Larson

I tend not to think about the reading public at all, or the business, when I'm writing.

— Sara Gruen

When I was at Brown, I wanted to write the great American novel, but I was too scared to take a creative course. I…

— Nathaniel Philbrick

I get emails from students at programs all over the country who want to transfer to Iowa, and in most cases their frustrations have…

— John D'Agata

I was so grateful to be independent of the academic establishment. I thought, how awful it would be to have my future hinge on…

— Jane Jacobs

I was a pretty good academic proofreader, I just wasn't good at keeping up with the paperwork.

— Anne Hegerty

I was on my own at Wellesley, surrounded by a lot of young women who were motivated and intellectually curious. I started to read…

— Elisabeth Shue

It took me a couple of years after I got out of Berkeley before I dared to start writing. That academic mind-set - which…

— Joan Didion

It got so bad that by the time I was graduated, the only reading I did was in order to get the grade and…

— R. A. Salvatore

I was elected to lead not to read.

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

I was shocked at college to see one hundred of my classmates in the library all reading copies of the same book. Instead of…

— John Cage