Distinction Quote by Joyce Carol Oates

Undergraduate writers seem to be, in a way, more open to letting themselves just write.

— David Means

There are seldom more than a couple of students in any workshop who seem natural writers.

— James Lasdun

I was not especially a writer back in college.

— Robert Sapolsky

There are very few critics who have historical context or authority.

— Twyla Tharp

In marked contrast to the University of Wisconsin, Biochemistry was hardly visible at Stanford in 1945, consisting of only two professors in the chemistry department.

— Paul D. Boyer

I think that's more a reflection of the fact I've never been a student of any particular school of writing, or even listening.

— Feist

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

— Walter Jon Williams

As few subjects are more interesting to society, so few have been more frequently written upon than the education of youth.

— Oliver Goldsmith

To say that creative writing courses are all useless is almost as silly as saying all editors are useless. Writers of all levels can…

— Matt Haig

The makers of the short story have rarely been good novelists.

— V. S. Pritchett

When I got to college, I didn't take writing classes, just the standard freshman composition class.

— Roger Zelazny

I worry that people think you have to go to a university to be a good writer, which is categorically untrue. I don't think…

— Samantha Shannon