Books Quote by Ted Dekker

After university, I got a job sub-editing and for years I was a literary editor.

— Lynne Truss

I did playwriting, creative writing, short story, novelization.

— Brook Lopez

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

Wrote my first "novel" when I was six. Studied a bit in college, but then pursued history... But when I started writing professionally, it…

— David B. Coe

I took a lot of writing courses.

— Danny Strong

I was an English major in college, took a ton of creative writing courses, and was a newspaper reporter for 10 years.

— Jennifer Weiner

I had wanted to be a writer for a very long time, but I had no talent for finishing books. I would start them,…

— Leigh Bardugo

I instantly chucked my academic ambitions and began writing fiction full-time.

— Peter Straub

I didn't do a masters in creative writing until I was 26, which is quite old, and then I found myself in New York…

— Rachel Kushner

I didn't make any money from my writing until much later. I published about 80 stories for nothing. I spent on literature.

— Naguib Mahfouz

The key thing in my becoming a writer was going on a Arvon Foundation residential writing course. I took with me a really messy…

— Maggie O'Farrell

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

— Walter Jon Williams