College Quote by Jennifer Weiner

Well, my background is journalism. I don't have any creative-writing experience except for one class I took as a sophomore in college.

— Dave Eggers

I write and teach creative nonfiction. I was a reporter.

— Eileen Pollack

I've always enjoyed writing, I graduated with a degree in English; I've done bits of journalism

— Michael York

I always wanted to be some kind of writer or newspaper reporter. But after college... I did other things.

— Jackie Kennedy

I was a scholarship minor public school day boy at Ardingly College and later Whitgift School. Then, straight into work as a journalist -…

— Neil Gaiman

When I went to college I took a creative writing class and decided in a week to be a writer.

— David Guterson

I've always been a writer. I started getting paid for writing in college. Where it transitioned from commentary to journalism was in that shift…

— Melissa Gira Grant

I studied journalism, though I never really became a scribe.

— Nithya Menen

From about ninth grade on, I knew I was a writer at heart. I had fantasies of being a great novelist, but I thought…

— Kevin Maney

I held a variety of jobs - most notably ten years working in universities - and kept on writing.

— Thomas Perry

I went to college, though I didn't take many writing courses.

— Walter Jon Williams

I didn't do a masters in creative writing until I was 26, which is quite old, and then I found myself in New York…

— Rachel Kushner