Education Quote by Gwendolyn Brooks

To be a writer you have to write -- and no academic degree is going to do the writing for you.

— Michelle Richmond

Ultimately, you've got to have something to say, so a writer should continue learning things throughout life. But I don't think education makes one…

— Roger Zelazny

The idea that it is necessary to go to a university in order to become a successful writer . . . is one of…

— Vera Brittain

PhD, MFA, self-taught—the only things you must have to become a writer are the stamina to continue and a wily, cagey heart in the…

— Alexander Chee

If I had taken a doctoral degree, it would have stifled any writing capacity.

— Anonymous

The best education for a writer, I think, is to read a lot - college can be a good place to do that.

— Rebecca Mead

“Too many writers are trying to write with too shallow an education. Whether they go to college or not is immaterial...a good writer needs…

— James Kisner

Perhaps it would be better not to be a writer, but if you must, then write.

— J. B. Priestley

It's not a college degree that makes a writer. The great thing is to have a story to tell.

— Polly Adler

Writing is probably the least glamorous profession there is. This doesn't change when you become an author.

— Rebecca Serle

Becoming a writer is not a 'career decision' like becoming a doctor or a policeman. You don't choose it so much as get chosen,…

— Paul Auster

You need a certain amount of nerve to be a writer.

— Margaret Atwood