Academy Quote by Gore Vidal

Harvard created wonderful conditions for me as a writerbut the writing was done, almost entirely, when I got home.

— Seamus Heaney

I really, really wanted to write. I loved language. I loved literature. I loved reading. I never read a foreign language, I'm afraid, but…

— Robert Stone

I went to the Conservatory of Music in school in Rome.

— Cecilia Bartoli

I had had a classical education prior to that.

— Skitch Henderson

My mother sent me and my sisters to Italy every year for language school, so I spent a lot of my teenage years in…

— Lawrence Osborne

It was a weird stage of my life, to leave Simon & Garfunkel at the height of our success and become a math teacher.…

— Art Garfunkel

In England, we'd leave school at 15 and go on to a college, and I went to further education in a town called Welling…

— Donovan

I spent my life in the library reading books.

— Michael Caine

While the Romans languished under the ignominious tyranny of eunuchs and bishops, the praises of Julian were repeated with transport in every part of…

— Edward Gibbon

I wrote 'Yellow Submarine' for the Beatles. I wrote the screenplay for 'The Games,' about the Olympic Games. I wrote 'Love Story,' both the…

— Erich Segal

I started writing seriously about 1960, at the fairly advanced age of 30.

— Fred Saberhagen

I graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles, with an English literature degree and travelled for a year before going to work.

— Natalie Massenet