Books Quote by Tara Westover

Had I not had children of my own, I would have never written books for children, nor would I have been capable of doing…

— Roald Dahl

I never took a writing class.

— George Pelecanos

I never really did anything academically.

— David Essex

When I was growing up, the exam system didn't allow you to write fiction, so you never did.

— Roddy Doyle

I had never passed a single school exam, and clearly never would.

— Mary Leakey

I'd never done anything useful as far as my writing.

— Anthony Bourdain

I went to work in 1962, and by '64 I was writing all the time, every night and every weekend. It didn't occur to…

— Peter Carey

My working-class Italian-American parents didn't go to school, there were no books in the house.

— Martin Scorsese

I never studied, but I had the best teachers,

— Mstislav Rostropovich

I was home-schooled my entire life and never been in a classroom.

— Alexis Ren

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

— Walter Jon Williams

I can remember no time when I did not understand that my mother must write books because people would have and read them; but…

— Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward