College Quote by Richard Ford

I went to college, but I learned to write by reading - and writing.

— Daniel Pinkwater

When I barely got into college, the one thing I could do was write, so I became an English major.

— Mat Kearney

When I went to college I took a creative writing class and decided in a week to be a writer.

— David Guterson

I went to college, though I didn't take many writing courses.

— Walter Jon Williams

When I got out of college, I had to make a living, and I started writing for magazines, and it felt like the perfect…

— Peter Heller

In school, writing was the only thing that really came naturally to me, but it wasn't until college that I realized that I could…

— Sarah Dessen

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

I've always liked to write, but I never thought I could make a career out of it.

— Dee Rees

I wanted to be a writer, to write these stories that would make people see the world in a different way. But I ended…

— Jeffrey Skoll

Once I began college, I was committed to writing, which I think is different from saying I wanted to become a writer. I knew…

— Dinaw Mengestu

I've spent most of my life writing and developing everything that I've wanted to be in - which is why I started writing in…

— Alex Borstein

I hated the culture [working in the bank], I hated the work. I very quickly realized that this wasn't what I wanted to do.…

— Sharif Abdel Kouddous