Academia Quote by Stephanie Land

Right now-whether you're in writing courses getting "paid" in credit for writing, or burdened and distracted by earning a living and changing diapers-figure out…

— Janet Burroway

I've always been a writer, and in high school, I was the editor of my school newspaper and I got a writing scholarship. It's…

— Zoe Lister-Jones

Most of my writing friends are working in academia. Most of my business school friends are always talking about bringing companies public, and money,…

— Victoria Chang

I wrote all the time, but the idea of doing it professionally seemed like pie in the sky. Who gets paid to write? I…

— Shane Black

There is a whole industry in America of people who want to write, and those who teach it. Even if the students don't end…

— Edmund White

I have long observed that the act of writing is viewed, by some, as an elite and otherworldly act, all the more so if…

— Joyce Maynard

For example, many colleges in their writing programs teach some of my work

— Gay Talese

Getting your foot in the door with some publishing people can be important when you're starting out as a writer, but it's also not…

— Chad Harbach

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

Undergraduate writers seem to be, in a way, more open to letting themselves just write.

— David Means

Every writer aspires to recognition , and it comes entirely privately, without public fanfare, each time a piece of work is judged worthy of publication.

— Cynthia Ozick

Publishing is a business. Writing may be art, but publishing, when all is said and done, comes down to dollars.

— Nicholas Sparks