Adult Quote by Scott Westerfeld

I've never taken any classes or had formal training in writing novels. At its most basic, I learned how to structure a novel.

— Dennis Green

I have no formal training as a writer at all, not even a single English class in college.

— Scott Westerfeld

When I was in high school and college, my other real focus was, actually, fiction writing. So in college, I had done all these…

— Lily Rabe

In actual fact, I have been an academic - a college and university teacher and scholar - for much of the last 45 years,…

— Shirley Geok-lin Lim

I was an English major in university and that got me into novels, but I read a lot of books as a kid.

— Dan Mangan

I lay off a lot modern fiction and only rely on living writers for non-fiction work.

— Henry Rollins

I entered the literary world, really, from outside. My entire background has been in sciences; I was a biology major in college, then went…

— Khaled Hosseini

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

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

— Charles Bock

I'm very interested in writing - it just takes so much discipline, whether it's short stories or novels.

— Conor Oberst

Writing was something I have always been interested in. I've grown up in a household full of books, with both my parents English teachers…

— Alexandra Adornetto

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