Calling Quote by Junot Diaz

I took a couple of creative writing classes with Joyce Carol Oates at Princeton University, and in my senior year there, I took a…

— Mohsin Hamid

Young writers take themselves very seriously in college.

— Kyle Kinane

I did go to UCLA for art, but the other option was going to Sarah Lawrence and doing creative writing all the way. So…

— Emily Ratajkowski

I really wanted to be a writer.

— Nancy Meyers

When I was in high school and college, my other real focus was, actually, fiction writing. So in college, I had done all these…

— Lily Rabe

I was an A student and I liked creative writing.

— Trisha Yearwood

I instantly chucked my academic ambitions and began writing fiction full-time.

— Peter Straub

I can't say that I ever actually decided to become a writer. It kind of snuck up on me.

— William Landay

What brought me to the table was Raymond Chandler and, to a lesser degree, Ross Macdonald and Dashiell Hammett. I was basically inspired to…

— Michael Connelly

When I was young, I wanted to be a dramatic writer, a writer of tragedy. Nothing would've pleased me more than if I could…

— Woody Allen

I had the most incredible English and literature teachers in school, and it really influenced my love of storytelling. It's what made me excited…

— Sophia Bush

When I got a little older, I started writing for the high school newspaper, 'The Maroon Wave,' and that's when I fell in love…

— Jeannette Walls