Classroom Quote by James Thayer

I went to school for creative writing in college, and I wound up about six hours short of my degree.

— Jason Isbell

I spent several years acquiring the obsessive, day-to-day discipline that's needed if you want to write professionally, then several more, highly valuable years studying…

— John Dalton

I taught elementary school and painted apartments for ten years. Now I write full-time and never have to change a thing I write. Every…

— Jon Scieszka

I took a lot of writing courses.

— Danny Strong

At first, I spend about four hours a day writing. Toward the end of a book, I spend up to 16 hours a day…

— Tracy Kidder

Typically, a book takes me about a year to write.

— Ted Bell

When I started writing fiction, I knew how good it was immediately.

— Anonymous

There are favorable hours for reading a book, as for writing it.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

I did a course in creative writing.

— Antara Mali

It takes me two to three years to write a novel. A screenplay is 100 pages and takes five years.

— Nick Hornby

I write 3-4 days a week, 4-5 hours at a time (with lots of breaks). My goal is 2000 words when I sit down…

— Nicholas Sparks

I've lost my writing skills since college. I couldn't write a book. It would take a long time.

— Stephen Malkmus