College Quote by Lily Rabe

I spent several years acquiring the obsessive, day-to-day discipline that's needed if you want to write professionally, then several more, highly valuable years studying…

— John Dalton

At university, I used to write silly little sketches and monologues, but never fiction.

— David Nicholls

In high school and college, I started to read more and write science fiction myself. I was fully engaged in writing in the 1990s.

— Liu Cixin

This sounds like a cliche, but I always wanted to write. After college, I did some writing and realized very quickly that it's hard…

— Hooman Majd

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

— Jill Lepore

I lay off a lot modern fiction and only rely on living writers for non-fiction work.

— Henry Rollins

I have no formal training as a writer at all, not even a single English class in college. However, my adult books are all…

— Scott Westerfeld

For a while, when I got out of college, I tried to write fiction. I'd grown up more around novelists, and my initial attraction…

— David Grann

I've been a writer my whole life. I've just never pursued a career in it since I graduated college.

— Scheana Shay

When I graduated college I needed to make money while I was pursuing acting, so I read screenplays and made a living writing coverage…

— Sasha Alexander

I researched fiction writing for months before I taught my first class, much of it looking for strong techniques from bestselling authors.

— James Thayer

After working as a journalist I went to a writing program at Johns Hopkins. It was interesting because it was neither journalistic nor historical,…

— Iris Chang