Education Quote by Jack London

“what he’s really thinking is: why did I waste all those years in academia when I could have been doing great shit like this?”

— Neal Stephenson

“no writing is a waste of time--no creative work where the feelings, the imagination, the intelligence must work.”

— Brenda Ueland

“for twenty-five years he has been reading and writing things that clever men have long known and stupid ones are not interested in;”

— Anton Chekhov

“He had no college dreams and hence no proximity to the challenge of new faces and ideas.”

— Steve Martin

“He had not liked the things taught to him in college. He had been taught a great deal about social responsibility, about a life…

— Ayn Rand

“The more he studied, the more vistas he caught of fields of knowledge yet unexplored, and the regret that days were only twenty-four hours…

— Jack London

“If writing doesn't come from the heart, the time spent was a waste”

— Dustin Adrian Rhodes

“his education had had the curious effect of making things that he read and wrote more real to him than things he saw.”

— C.S. Lewis

“He who would be a writer, fine, Must take a deal of pains, Must criticize his every line, And mix his ink with brains.”

— Platt Rogers Spencer

“Reading novels needs almost as much talent as writing them,' he used to say.”

— Anthony Powell

“Like so many creative men of his school he was hounded by an incessant restlessness.”

— Leon Uris

“There's a good reason I am a writer. I'm completely useless at anything else.”

— Derek Haines