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There is a whole industry in America of people who want to write, and those who teach it. Even if the students don't end…

— Edmund White

One of the unfortunate things about creative writing courses is that they make people impatient. People feel that they have prepared themselves and that…

— Robert Dessaix

A writer should get as much education as possible, but just going to school is not enough; if it were, all owners of doctorates…

— Gwendolyn Brooks

I think young writers should get other degrees first, social sciences, arts degrees or even business degrees. What you learn is research skills, a…

— Irvine Welsh

The best education for a writer, I think, is to read a lot - college can be a good place to do that.

— Rebecca Mead

The writing workshops and programs that are everywhere have encouraged writing. And if that produces more writing, it's also producing more readers of an…

— James Salter

Beginning writers must appreciate the prerequisites if they hope to become writers. You pay your dues - which takes years.

— Alex Haley

I think new writers everywhere need opportunities to get published.

— Greg Egan

“Too many writers are trying to write with too shallow an education. Whether they go to college or not is immaterial...a good writer needs…

— James Kisner

Being a writer is a rather hazardous occupation and there is a horribly high rate of writers who barely have the money for the…

— Herbert Gold

Hindi writing, as well as Hindi journalism, is a great gift to Indian writing.

— Amitava Kumar

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

— David Means