Bad Quote by Jesmyn Ward

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

— Walter Jon Williams

I got a degree in English from Brigham Young University, but I didnt study creative writingjust literature. I was too much a coward to…

— Stephenie Meyer

I wanted to be a writer for a while. I was an excellent child writer. I won multiple poetry contests. I was published at…

— Aya Cash

By college, I had a really grand, preposterous vision of myself as becoming a writer, but I don't think I had the discipline or…

— Nguyen Viet Thang

I wanted to be a poet and/or an artist, but I was very lazy (frightened of failure, I guess) and drank too much.

— Peter Blegvad

In high school, I was very active in extracurricular activities such as art, theatre, and choir. I also wrote for the school newspaper, but…

— Meg Cabot

I always wanted to be a writer. I was writing poetry when I was 6.

— Peter Heller

I wrote things for the school's newspaper, and - like all teenagers - I dabbled in poetry.

— Stephen Colbert

I think I became a writer because I didn't know of anything else to do. Maybe some incident from my childhood influenced me.

— Patrick Modiano

I became a writer because during several of the most important years of my life, writing seemed to me to be the most unreal,…

— William Saroyan

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

I always liked to write and had fun writing, but I didn't have any pretensions about being a writer. I liked to read and…

— John Edgar Wideman