About Quote by Frances Tiafoe

The academy gave me a grounding in discipline and hard work that has sustained me throughout my life, and the lessons I learned there…

— Georg Solti

I got brilliant stories from people who'd never set foot in an MFA program and had published very little, and terrible stories from people…

— Ben Fountain

I plan to establish my own academy.

— Abhinav Bindra

I figured out I wanted to tell stories in college. I'm an only child who moved around a lot growing up, and I really…

— Joe Robert Cole

I want to thank the Academy for its courage and generosity.

— Elia Kazan

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 was a scholarship minor public school day boy at Ardingly College and later Whitgift School. Then, straight into work as a journalist -…

— Neil Gaiman

I went to the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art because it was the only drama school the social worker had ever heard of. Luckily,…

— Richard McCabe

I applied to American Repertory School up at Harvard at got in.

— Ajay Naidu

I was attracted to filmmaking in college because of my love of storytelling. You can have such an impact and reach a broader audience…

— Rory Kennedy

So I went out and bought myself a copy of the Writer and Artist Yearbook, bought lots of magazines and got on the phone…

— Neil Gaiman

I have been an outsider in journalism and in the academy, because I never fully belonged to any of them.

— Garry Wills