“There are a lot of college writing textbooks that will include essays and short stories, and after reading the story or essay, there will be questions such as "Have YOU Had any experience with a pedophile in YOUR family?" or "When was the last time you saw YOUR mother drunk?" and they're just really good at prompting stories. You answer the question, and sometimes that can spring into a story.” WritingSometimesStoriesLastsMotherReadingAnswersSawsCollegeSpringDrunkOur FamilyShort StoryLast TimeEssaysTextbooks Author:David Sedaris
“I had no intention of replacing Arnold [Schwarzenegger]. There were a few things that made me want to do the movie. They were the script which had a different direction to it, and it was a chance to do a very different Quaid. I didn't read the short story until I went to college.Reading the story had a different effect on me of how I pictured him to be and the tone of the story was different. In the story, he's a bit more of an everyman.” WantMadeDifferentStoriesReadingBitsChanceEffectsCollegeIntentionScriptsToneShort StoryDifferent DirectionsSchwarzeneggerEverymanQuaid Author:Len Wiseman
“In college I wrote for the university newspaper, and I had several short stories published in small press. I think it's just been a natural progression of where to go with the imagination and not have to grow up.” ThinkingStoriesGrowsImaginationNaturalGrowing UpCollegePressesUniversityNewspapersShort StoryProgression Author:Gabriel Campisi
“Around the time I dropped out of college, I decided to start taking what I liked about short stories and apply it to writing songs - to make these things that would change and keep going.” WritingStoriesSongCollegeDecidedKeep GoingShort StoryWriting Songs Author:Avey Tare
“I had lots of time to read [being a lawyer] what I hadn't read in my school and college days. Being a bad student I barely passed my exams and I barely bothered about books. It was sports all the time. I started reading and got involved in literature and writing. The few cases I handled gave me the material for my early short stories.” WritingBookStoriesSchoolReadingLiteratureSportsCasesStudentsCollegeMaterialsInvolvedLawyerShort StoryBotheredExamCollege Days Author:Khushwant Singh