Campus Quote by Junot Diaz

I do different work, teaching and running around visiting universities and bookstores, and that prevents me from writing. But it's nice to be wanted…

— Bonnie Jo Campbell

I've taken every writing class I've had available. I took classes in high school, and I took English and writing classes in community college,…

— Amanda Hocking

I went to college, but I learned to write by reading - and writing.

— Daniel Pinkwater

For example, many colleges in their writing programs teach some of my work

— Gay Talese

I write to be read. I'm quite direct about that. I'm not writing to thrill colleagues or to impress the professors at the University…

— Erik Larson

I took a lot of writing courses.

— Danny Strong

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

— David Means

I was mostly an indoor girl at university. Where other students did drama or music or sport alongside their degrees, I wrote. I used…

— Samantha Shannon

I've learned a lot about writing from listening to my students talk.

— Marilynne Robinson

I am very interested in people trying to write because I don't have a big academic background at all.

— Grace Paley

In actual fact, I have been an academic - a college and university teacher and scholar - for much of the last 45 years,…

— Shirley Geok-lin Lim

Writing was something I have always been interested in. I've grown up in a household full of books, with both my parents English teachers…

— Alexandra Adornetto