College Quote by Ted Kooser

I don't know much about creative writing programs. But they're not telling the truth if they don't teach, one, that writing is hard work,…

— Doris Lessing

I went to school for creative writing in college, and I wound up about six hours short of my degree.

— Jason Isbell

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 don't really believe in a creative-writing major as an undergraduate. It's a bad idea, terrible. I've met creative-writing majors from other places and…

— Barry Hannah

I got an MFA in creative non-fiction writing at the University of Montana.

— Steven Rinella

I left the University of Chicago's creative writing program for a tenure-track job at DePauw University in Indiana, then left DePauw in 2010 for…

— Nic Pizzolatto

I see creative-writing classes as some sort of AA meeting. It is more of a support group for people who write than an actual…

— Etgar Keret

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

For graduate school I ended up going to the University of Iowa, which is, of course, the best graduate writing program in the country.

— Elin Hilderbrand

I would love to see young writers come out of college and know there is a possibility to be a novelist.

— Pat Conroy

I'm really fortunate to have been to the schools I've been to, and to have the experiences I've had. And, partly since my parents…

— Steven C. Harper

Being a writer now is about so much more than writing. There's publishing, touring, marketing, web presence.

— James Frey