“I am involved with 'Write Girl,' which is such a great organization, because they go into inner city schools and work with underprivileged girls to pair them up with other writers. And it gets them learning to express themselves and become familiar with their own voice. They have a 100% success ratio getting those girls into college.” WritingSchoolGirlVoiceCitiesCollegeInvolvedOrganizationFamiliarPairsRatiosInner CityUnderprivilegedGreat OrganizationsInner City Schools Author:Melissa Rosenberg
“I went to Gettysburg College, where the famous Civil War battle was fought. I majored in English. I would've liked to major in writing, but they didn't offer a major in that.” WritingWarCollegeBattleOffersMajorsCivil WarGettysburg Author:Jerry Spinelli
“I went to college, though I didn't take many writing courses.” WritingCoursesCollege Author:Walter Jon Williams
“When I was in college, I did do some writing of poetry, somewhat inspired, I think at that time, by Carl Sandburg, because English was still relatively new to me, and Sandburg, of course, wrote in a very easy-to-understand, very colloquial and informal manner.” ThinkingWritingStillsCoursesEasyCollegeInspired Author:Lisel Mueller
“It's hard to say when my interest in writing began, or how. My mother read to my sister and me every night, and we always loved playing make-believe games. I had a well-primed imagination. I didn't start thinking about writing as a serious pursuit, a career I could have, until after college.” ThinkingWritingBelieveWellsHardMotherNightGamesInterestImaginationCareersCollegeSeriousPursuitMy SisterEvery NightMake BelievePlaying Make Believe Author:Sara Zarr
“I took a writing class in college, liked it, and my first year out of school I couldn't get a job, so I wrote a play.” WritingYearsFirstsPlaySchoolJobsClassCollege Author:Zoe Kazan
“Claude Hopkins.. maintained that nobody with a college education could write an advertisement addressed to the mass millions. That's absolute poppycock.” WritingMillionsCollegeMassAbsolutesAdvertisingAdvertisementsCollege EducationHopkins Author:David Ogilvy
“I moved here when I was 20 to go to college. After I moved here, I became much more aware of the importance of the culture and literature to my life. Sometimes when you're immersed in something, you just don't notice it very much. Moving away makes you appreciate your culture. Living here, I've thought more and more about India, and what being Indian-American means to me. And it's made me incorporate things from Indian literature into my own writing.” WritingMeanMadeSometimesMovingCultureLiteratureMy OwnCollegeAppreciateIndiaImportanceMovedIndianAmerican IndianMoving AwayAppreciate You Author:Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
“If I went back to college again, I'd concentrate on learning to write and to speak before an audience . Nothing is more important than the abillity to communicate effectively.” IfsWritingImportantSpeakAudienceCollegeCommunicateWrestlingBack To College Author:Gerald R. Ford
“I first started writing fiction in college because I was attracted to beautiful sentences. I loved to read them. I wanted to write them.” WritingFirstsWantedBeautifulFictionCollegeSentencesWriting Fiction Author:Karen Thompson Walker
“I fell in love with Virginia Woolf in college. I especially admire how well she writes about daily life, how she captures so much meaning and consequence in the smallest details of a day.” WritingWellsCollegeConsequenceDetailsAdmireDaily LifeCaptureSmallestVirginiaWoolf Author:Karen Thompson Walker
“If you don't take enough math classes or science classes or writing intensive classes, you're not going to be prepared to compete in college or the workplace -- no matter what your diploma says.” IfsWritingMatterEnoughClassCollegeNo Matter WhatPreparedMathBe PreparedWorkplaceDiplomaScience ClassMath Class Author:Rod Blagojevich