High Quote by Frank McCourt

Teaching high school was my real training as a novelist: it got me out of my head, and (at least a little) out of…

— Garth Greenwell

My senior year at College Park, University of Maryland, I took an elective class in crime fiction taught by Charles C. Mish. He turned…

— George Pelecanos

I was studying sculpture and painting and was working on a degree so I could become a teacher. I really liked teaching, and it…

— Kurt Wagner

At the same time, I went through college, received a Ph.D. and started to teach. I wrote books.

— Frederick Lenz

I was a teacher. I also worked at Harlem Children's Zone. I moved back to Baltimore and opened up an after-school, out-of-school program on…

— DeRay Mckesson

When I was in college at Carnegie Mellon, I wanted to be a chemist. So I became one. I worked in a laboratory and…

— E. L. Konigsburg

When I moved to New York, I really wanted to find my bread job as close to my passion as possible. There's nobility in…

— Natasha Rothwell

By the time I started high school, I knew I wanted to be a writer. After graduating from Smith College in Massachusetts, I moved…

— Cynthia Voigt

When I was writing my first two books I was also freelancing and teaching and doing other odd jobs.

— Curtis Sittenfeld

I studied writing at NYU. I graduated high school in Nashville and then went to the creative writing program, and in the first year,…

— Harmony Korine

My degree was in education, but the idea of being a teacher lost out to being a reporter. I worked at a newspaper for…

— Joan Ganz Cooney

I was still in high school when my career started.

— Scarface