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When I was a freshman in college I went to Grinnell College in Iowa. I brought my poems to my freshman humanities teacher whose…

— Edward Hirsch

It was actually a women's writing group I belonged to in graduate school that gave me the courage to move from poetry to fiction.

— Mary Gordon

I studied art at Queens College, taking very few courses in literature. But I've always loved reading poetry and grew up enjoying the so-called…

— Douglas Florian

People didn't know certain things about me, which... I was out of creative writing class in school, Syracuse University; had a B.A. in English…

— Lou Reed

I was in more of the artsy crowd in high school.

— Noureen DeWulf

I did sketch comedy with a troupe at the Nuyorican Poets Cafe.

— Selenis Leyva

I first got involved in theater in 1968, at the height of a social tumult. I was a poet.

— August Wilson

I was a musical theatre geek in high school and college.

— Toks Olagundoye

At college, I wanted to be a poet. I liked the extremely concentrated language, the atmosphere of otherworldliness.

— Walter Kirn

For a stretch of time, I got really caught up in the idea that what people liked about my work was that I was…

— Adrian Tomine

I wrote comedy sketches in college.

— Ellie Kemper

The New York School poets are my godfathers creatively.

— Jim Jarmusch