Audience Quote by Gerald R. Ford

College ain't so much where you been as how you talk when you get back.

— Ossie Davis

The point of college is more to acquire skills than to acquire domain knowledge. One of the skills that is going to be most…

— Daniel H. Pink

My seventeen years of teaching inform my sense of audience in every line I write.

— Will Hobbs

I have no college education; I taught myself how to write. If you want it badly enough, you can have it. You can walk…

— Erin Foster

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

— Marilynne Robinson

If I had to do it all over again, I would speak less and study more.

— Billy Graham

I'm not an A student; I'm not even a B student, but I've gotten a lot better with the reading because of texts. And…

— R. Kelly

You can’t learn to write in college. It’s a very bad place for writers because the teachers always think they know more than you…

— Ray Bradbury

When I barely got into college, the one thing I could do was write, so I became an English major.

— Mat Kearney

I think that having the years in college to really focus on your training is incredibly valuable. College shapes the kind of person/actor that…

— Rachel Hoffman

Although my other ambition was to be a musical theater star (and I would attend college on a voice scholarship), writing was never far…

— Alex Flinn

I've been trying to write. I also spent a lot of time on different campuses, in conversation, helping other writers. That's what I do:…

— Junot Diaz