Hard Quote by Peter Heller

I got out of Iowa all set to be a poet and a novelist, but you know what? It's really tough to make a…

— Peter Heller

I get emails from students at programs all over the country who want to transfer to Iowa, and in most cases their frustrations have…

— John D'Agata

When I went to the University of Iowa in order to be a writer, I thought, This is the worst way to learn how…

— Joe Frank

I went to school in California, at Stanford when I was seventeen, and I lived in San Francisco until I was twenty-three, and then…

— Jenny Zhang

It’s always hard. If it was easy, everyone would do it rather than going around telling you their ideas and saying how they could…

— Arthur M. Jolly

For graduate school I ended up going to the University of Iowa, which is, of course, the best graduate writing program in the country.

— Elin Hilderbrand

Writing is hard, even for authors who do it all the time.

— Roger Angell

It's not a college degree that makes a writer. The great thing is to have a story to tell.

— Polly Adler

Writing is the hardest physical work there is.

— Tom Robbins

Most of the stuff I've written has never even gotten made. It's par for the course. It's a great living, but it also gets…

— Scott Aukerman

Holy cow - everything about writing a novel is hard for me.

— Laura van den Berg

Some creative writing programs seem evil, but my experience at Irvine was totally the opposite, where I feel like they were really good at…

— Aimee Bender