Elementary school Quote by Joel Salatin

I did not win and in fact I was called into the principal's office for a consultation with my parents. But that was the…

— William Joyce

My mother sent me to speech classes, but the other kids still teased me. I was shy. I stooped. Instead of talking, I kept…

— Colman Domingo

My mother wanted me to be a writer, which I have ended up taking a long road round to.

— Mick Foley

My mother raised me to be a writer.

— Pat Conroy

Acing a history test in seventh grade taught me nothing. Failing 95% of my grammar quizzes in eighth grade made me work harder and…

— Harry Enten

Since childhood, I wrote a lot of fiction, a lot of stories, but I most loved writing essays.

— Jill Lepore

I like going to schools and telling classes that when I was a child, I failed every "will this kid become a writer" test.

— Kate DiCamillo

My mother fiercely valued education. She entered college the same year I did, in 1979, and graduated eight years later. She was a remarkable…

— Tom Perez

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

— Stephen Colbert

When I was 27, I won an honorable mention in a scriptwriting contest and got a television job as an assistant director.

— Hirokazu Kore-eda

I was sent to a finishing school, which didn't last long when mother found out how badly chaperoned we were. Then I 'came out'…

— Mary Wesley

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