Correspondence Quote by Donald Ray Pollock

In college, I wrote maybe three short stories.

— Colson Whitehead

I took a lot of writing courses.

— Danny Strong

I used to do a lot of story writing and storytelling coming up through grade school. By the time I got to college, I…

— Rhea Seehorn

I have written stories, essays, even whole books on trains, scribble-scribble.

— Paul Theroux

I did playwriting, creative writing, short story, novelization.

— Brook Lopez

I didn't finish the stories until we went to the Philippines and I got malaria. I couldn't work and I didn't have any money,…

— Denis Johnson

I was the kind of kid who couldn't really stop making up stories during class. I didn't do very well academically because I was…

— Meg Cabot

I didnt finish the stories until we went to the Philippines and I got malaria. I couldnt work and I didnt have any money,…

— Denis Johnson

I spent several years acquiring the obsessive, day-to-day discipline that's needed if you want to write professionally, then several more, highly valuable years studying…

— John Dalton

I've been writing short stories for twenty years now, on and off ever since I was in the creative writing program at San Francisco…

— Andrew Lam

I wrote about a bird that cleaned a crocodile's teeth. The story was so good that my teacher could not believe that a ten-year-old…

— Brian Jacques

I told all kinds of stories about going to Japan, about playing ball with my father... I wanted to record my life in case…

— Natalie Goldberg