Any Quote by Samantha Shannon

I really wasn't equipped to be a writer when I left Oxford. But then I set out to learn. I've always had the highest…

— V. S. Naipaul

To be a writer you have to write -- and no academic degree is going to do the writing for you.

— Michelle Richmond

You can't learn to write in college. It's a very bad place for writers because the teachers always think they know more than you…

— Ray Bradbury

You can’t learn to write in college. It’s a very bad place for writers because the teachers always think they know more than you…

— Ray Bradbury

The idea that it is necessary to go to a university in order to become a successful writer . . . is one of…

— Vera Brittain

“Too many writers are trying to write with too shallow an education. Whether they go to college or not is immaterial...a good writer needs…

— James Kisner

You can’t learn to write in college. It’s a very bad place for writers because the teachers always think they know more than you…

— Ray Bradbury

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

— Walter Jon Williams

I got a degree in English from Brigham Young University, but I didnt study creative writingjust literature. I was too much a coward to…

— Stephenie Meyer

Writing is something you'll never learn in any university or at any school. It's something that is within you, and if it isn't there,…

— Harper Lee

The best education for a writer, I think, is to read a lot - college can be a good place to do that.

— Rebecca Mead

One of the unfortunate things about creative writing courses is that they make people impatient. People feel that they have prepared themselves and that…

— Robert Dessaix