Backgrounds Quote by Dave Eggers

I was an English major in college, took a ton of creative writing courses, and was a newspaper reporter for 10 years.

— Jennifer Weiner

When I went to college I took a creative writing class and decided in a week to be a writer.

— David Guterson

I was an A student and I liked creative writing.

— Trisha Yearwood

I did a course in creative writing.

— Antara Mali

My first real writing job was at 'Rolling Stone,' so I wrote about rock-and-roll and politics and the like. At the time, I really…

— Tim Cahill

From about ninth grade on, I knew I was a writer at heart. I had fantasies of being a great novelist, but I thought…

— Kevin Maney

I've always enjoyed writing, I graduated with a degree in English; I've done bits of journalism

— Michael York

I've always liked to write, but I never thought I could make a career out of it.

— Dee Rees

When I was in college, I walked by the journalism school every day on my way to my own classes, and that's the closest…

— Wyatt Cenac

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

— Walter Jon Williams

I got an MFA in creative non-fiction writing at the University of Montana.

— Steven Rinella

I write and teach creative nonfiction. I was a reporter.

— Eileen Pollack