Facts Quote by Feist

I never went to school for writing, never took a writing class, but when you're in a room with David Simon and Ed Burns…

— George Pelecanos

I've learned a lot about writing from listening to my students talk.

— Marilynne Robinson

Oddly enough, I never studied writing. I studied almost everything except writing.

— Joss Whedon

Writing is something you'll never learn in any university or at any school. It's something that is within you, and if it isn't there,…

— Harper Lee

Undergraduate writers seem to be, in a way, more open to letting themselves just write.

— David Means

When I got to college, I didn't take writing classes, just the standard freshman composition class.

— Roger Zelazny

In actual fact, I have been an academic - a college and university teacher and scholar - for much of the last 45 years,…

— Shirley Geok-lin Lim

I wasn't a very good writer before college. I don't think I was a very good reader.

— DeRay Mckesson

I was not especially a writer back in college.

— Robert Sapolsky

I used to write from the time I was in school, and during college days too.

— Aishwarya R. Dhanush

I certainly derived my skills as a prose writer from my scrutiny of poetry and of the individual word. But schools don't do things…

— Camille Paglia

School is about who you know, but I think it's a form of brainwashing. I learnt to read and write and that was enough.

— Tricky