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I was a schoolteacher; I taught seventh and eighth grade, and I tried to write fiction on the side.

— David Grann

I tried writing fiction as a little kid, but had a teacher humiliate me, so didn't write again until I was a senior in…

— Janet Fitch

At university, I used to write silly little sketches and monologues, but never fiction.

— David Nicholls

I never wanted to write a book, and people have asked me for years to do it.

— Billy Bob Thornton

I never wanted to be a writer initially. It was not my thing, but I was an avid reader.

— Dustin Lance Black

Oddly enough, I never studied writing. I studied almost everything except writing.

— Joss Whedon

I don't write a lot of fiction.

— John Rzeznik

I did try to write fiction. I wrote 10 novels. And they were all just awful.

— Alexandra Fuller

I didn't write any fiction until I was past thirty.

— Grace Paley

Really, I've worked my whole adult life at fiction, to try and write fiction.

— Charles Bock

I didn't have any particular talent for fiction. I took a class in college.

— Ira Glass

Reading was really my only training in fiction writing. I never took a class or read a book on how to write. I just…

— Stephenie Meyer