About Quote by Dinaw Mengestu

Amherst is a liberal arts college, committed to providing students with a broad education.

— Joseph Stiglitz

“I realized Jack [Kerouac] was deeply committed to writing. Kesey was just as deeply committed to living and experiencing the lives of others; for…

— Sterling Lord

“Being a writer is like being in a relationship. If you're not 100% committed to your writing, you will fail to be the best…

— Patti Roberts

“By the time I began college, anxiety about hell had disappeared—not because I was confident that I was “saved,” but because the whole package…

— Marcus J. Borg

I began after college, about 1972. I began to teach myself photography. I went to work for a local newspaper for four years as…

— James Nachtwey

I began college during the Iraq War and initially wanted to be a foreign correspondent.

— Kasie Hunt

“A good writer knew when not to write. Anybody could type. Not that I was a good typist; also I couldn’t spell and I…

— Anonymous

We write to find out what we didn’t know we knew. We write to know deeper and truer. We write to connect the dots:…

— Carolyn Coman

“Now he would never write the things that he had saved to write until he knew enough to write them well.”

— Ernest Hemingway

“If I knew what to do I'd do more than write a song for you”

— Criss Jami

I knew I had to write a Mass of my own, but a real one.

— Igor Stravinsky

If I knew how to write a poem, I wouldn't.

— James Galvin