Camps Quote by Joni Mitchell

I married a university professor, raised a son, and worked as an academic librarian. My husband and I moved to the Ozarks, bought a…

— Sue Hubbell

I had an older brother who was very interested in literature, so I had an early exposure to literature, and and theater. My father…

— Francis Ford Coppola

I wasnt always a writer. When I went to college and majored in fine arts, I was a painter. Then I was a stay-at-home…

— Janet Evanovich

I got a degree in sociology, didn't read much fiction in college, and I was a pretty political, left-wing type of guy. I wanted…

— Anonymous

I wrote my first books when I was single and then I got married and then had a kid and there were different things…

— Jennifer Weiner

I had a mixture, my father was a career army man and my mother was a writer.

— Bill Griffith

Wrote my first "novel" when I was six. Studied a bit in college, but then pursued history... But when I started writing professionally, it…

— David B. Coe

My father was a writer and an acting teacher.

— Noah Hathaway

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

— Walter Jon Williams

I was a teacher most of my life, which I loved. I had a very happy working life, and when I retired, I thought…

— Anita Brookner

After university, I got a job sub-editing and for years I was a literary editor.

— Lynne Truss

My parents divorced. There was the usual awkward business of going between them, but I was mostly with my mother. She remarried to a…

— Jacob Rothschild