“I worked at my high school newspaper at Andover, which came out weekly, unusual for a high school paper. Then my first day at Penn I went right to the 'Daily Pennsylvanian' and pretty much spent most of my college career working both as the sports editor and then editor of the editorial page.” FirstsSchoolSportsCareersCollegePaperPagesHigh SchoolNewspapersEditorsUnusualEditorials Author:Buzz Bissinger
“The notion that a story has a message assumes that it can be reduced to a few abstract words, neatly summarized in a school or college examination paper or a brisk critical review.” StoriesSchoolCollegePaperMessagesAssumingNotionCriticalAbstractReviewsExamination Author:Ursula K. Le Guin
“I have come to believe that large print, thick and heavy paper, and wide margins and oversize leading is indicative of the expected intelligence of the reader. … Compare children's books and books on Web Duhsign or other X-in-21-days books. If the reading level of a specification is below college level, chances are the people behind it are morons and the result morose.” PeopleIfsBelieveChildrenBookReadingChanceLevelsResultsBehindsCollegeReaderPaperHeavyWideExpectedComparePrintThickMarginsChances AreMoronChildren's BooksMoroseSpecifications Author:Erik Naggum
“I kind of got more interested in writing after I turned in my last college essay and nobody was going to tell me what kind of academic papers to write anymore. I could write whatever I wanted, and I realized that I actually liked it when I could choose what I would write.” WritingKindWantedLastsCollegePaperI RealizedAcademicPapersEssays Author:Dan Millman
“Try and maybe write a couple of articles for your local paper. Perhaps you need to go to college to learn some things that might help you on the way. If you've got enthusiasm, determination and you love your sport - why shouldn't you be doing my job?” IfsWayNeedsWritingTryingHelpingMightJobsSportsLove YouCollegeCouplePaperDeterminationLocalsEnthusiasmArticles Author:Jill Douglas
“I love Hitchcock movies. I took a Hitchcock class in college, so I saw all his movies. I wrote papers on his movies.” ClassSawsCollegePaperPapersHitchcockHitchcock Movie Author:Jason Blum
“While I had been, I guess, quite brilliant, academically, in my college years, I also had been editor of the paper, and I loved that. And, that was a much more active thing. And I missed it when I was doing graduate work.” YearsCollegePaperActiveBrilliantEditorsGraduatesCollege Years Author:Betty Friedan
“The Jackass movies are honestly some of the best movies I've ever seen. I laugh so hard at them. Those guys are geniuses. If they had grown up with a different group of people, they could've been performance artists at Bard College, and people would be writing papers about them.” PeopleIfsWritingDifferentHardWould BeArtistGuyLaughingGroupsCollegeGeniusPaperPerformancesHonestlyPapersJackassesBards Author:Louis C. K.
“When I look at what I'm doing today, I see [the] roots in my college life. I was the online editor of my college paper and an active member of the Harvard Computer Society. I abandoned a summer internship at the Washington Post due to injury and instead did theatre. I found my comedic voice through satirical newsletters in college.” LooksTodayFoundVoiceCollegeMembersPaperComputerSummerRootsActiveDuesTheatrePostsInjuryOnlineEditorsAbandonedHarvardComedicSatiricalCollege LifeInternshipsNewsletters Author:Baratunde Thurston
“The biggest influence on my writing, besides snagging some ideas about black humor, was that the paper mill had a program where they paid 75 percent of the tuition and book [costs] for employees who wanted to go to college part-time.” WritingBookIdeasWantedBlackInfluenceCollegeCostPaperPercentProgramPaidEmployeeMillsPart TimeTuitionBlack Humor Author:Donald Ray Pollock
“Movies are definitely more fun because there are so many different seasons in a movie. It is exciting to be drafting together. Writing a book is very hard, it's like writing 15 college term papers in a row, and you are just like, "when is going to end?" You can communicate so much more when you are writing a book, and you can go so much deeper.” WritingBookDifferentEndsHardTogetherFunTermCollegePaperSeasonsExcitingCommunicateDeeperPapersWriting A BookDraftingTerm Paper Author:Stephen Kendrick