Authorship Quote by Vera Brittain

A writer should get as much education as possible, but just going to school is not enough; if it were, all owners of doctorates…

— Gwendolyn Brooks

It's not a college degree that makes a writer. The great thing is to have a story to tell.

— Polly Adler

“Too many writers are trying to write with too shallow an education. Whether they go to college or not is immaterial...a good writer needs…

— James Kisner

Writing is probably the least glamorous profession there is. This doesn't change when you become an author.

— Rebecca Serle

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

I worry that people think you have to go to a university to be a good writer, which is categorically untrue. I don't think…

— Samantha Shannon

To be a writer you have to write -- and no academic degree is going to do the writing for you.

— Michelle Richmond

No one put a gun to your head and ordered you to become a writer. One writes out of his own choice and must…

— Stanley Ellin

Really, becoming a writer sounds more like a mental illness than a professional choice.

— Shannon Hale

On a more practical level, anyone out there who wants to be a writer should clearly recognize that this is a brutal business, where…

— R. A. Salvatore

That's the advantage of being a writer: No matter what happens, as long as you survive it, it goes into the work.

— Alexandra Fuller

A downside to being a successful novelist? Wow - I can't imagine one.

— Andrew Sean Greer