Academic Quote by Peter Straub Download Open image “I instantly chucked my academic ambitions and began writing fiction full-time.” — Peter Straub ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.2 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Academic Ambition Fiction Motivation Writing Writing fiction
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
When I was starting out, I did not do short fiction well, because I kept wanting to write books. — Elizabeth Moon Copy Share Image
In retrospect, it seems like everything in my life led to me becoming a writer. I just didn't realise it at the time. — Kate Morton Copy Share Image
Wrote my first "novel" when I was six. Studied a bit in college, but then pursued history... But when I started writing professionally, it… — David B. Coe Copy Share Image
Though I later found a career as a journalist and an essayist, fiction is my first love and I never left it, even though… — Andrew Lam Copy Share Image
I started out writing much more science fictiony stuff and writing about science fiction. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
As soon as I started writing Julia, by which I mean while writing its first sentence, I felt a sudden, reassuring charge of excitement.… — Peter Straub Copy Share Image
An average working day begins at 8 or 9 am, includes an hour for lunch, and ends at 5 or 6 pm. — Peter Straub Copy Share Image
However, I think I managed to reach a new level with Koko, and I will always be grateful for the experience. — Peter Straub Copy Share Image
Everyone wants to get better as they go along, but sometimes it's all you can do to stay consistent. — Peter Straub Copy Share Image
Close your mouth and get out of the way, because here comes Kelly Link, than whom no one is better. — Peter Straub Copy Share Image
On gym days, I don't get to my desk until 4 in the afternoon, and everything except bedtime and the appointment with the liquid… — Peter Straub Copy Share Image
“Human beings across every culture I know about require such stories, stories with cool winds and wood smoke. They speak to something deep within… — Peter Straub Copy Share Image
God, in the orthodox view, causes famine, plague, and flood. Was God evil? Evil is a convenient fiction. — Peter Straub Copy Share Image
“I know this doesn't make sense, but if we ever did this before, exactly this, with you sitting over there and me here, in… — Peter Straub Copy Share Image
When I went to college, as much as my parents emphasized academic achievement, they emphasized marriage even more. They told me that the most… — Sheryl Sandberg Copy Share Image
Instead of explaining the sober facts of mechanics and electricity, I want to say a few words about the debt which we owe to… — Felix Bloch Copy Share Image
The Carnegie Foundation is well aware of the fact that their reports frequently find their way to dusty archives in academic institutions, but occasionally… — C. Everett Koop Copy Share Image
Marx, however imperfectly he worked out the details, set himself the task of discovering the law of motion of capitalism, and if there is… — Joan Robinson Copy Share Image
Now know I well what people sought formerly above all else when they sought Teachers of virtue. Good sleep they sought for themselves, and… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Because my graduate academic training at law school was not one that included most of the intellectual traditions I find useful for understanding the… — Dean Spade Copy Share Image
An academic discipline, or any other semiotic domain, for that matter, is not primarily content, in the sense of facts and principles. It is… — James Paul Gee Copy Share Image
“In the end, ethical interpretation of the Bible means to think critically about how our practices of textual engagement might help us to become… — Walter Brueggemann Copy Share Image
Perhaps art criticism cannot be reformed in a logical sense because it was never well-formed in the first place. Art criticism has long been… — James Elkins Copy Share Image
And I'm the first one to tell people to break the rules. But you can only break the rules once you know what the… — Tim Gunn Copy Share Image
Nietzsche's ideas and plans: for example, the idea of giving up the whole wretched academic world to form a secular monastic community. — Karl Jaspers Copy Share Image
Quality afterschool programs provide safe, engaging and fun learning experiences to help children and youth develop their social, emotional, physical, cultural and academic skills. — Debbie Stabenow Copy Share Image
