“I was kind of an outcast in school 'cause I always kept to myself and was writing poetry and then going on tour with my brother band all the time, so kids didn't know what to make of me.” KnowsWritingKindKidsSchoolCausesBrotherBandMy BrotherOutcastWriting Poetry Author:Christina Perri
“I write about kids growing up, I write a lot about schools and parents, and all of my experiences with those things have been suburban experiences.” WritingHas BeensKidsSchoolParentGrowing UpGrowingKids Growing Up Author:Tom Perrotta
“I was writing very early, like I was involved in our high school literary magazine, which was called 'Pariah.' The football team was the Bears, and the literary magazine was 'Pariah.' It was great. It was definitely a real sub-culture. But I wrote stories for them.” WritingRealStoriesSchoolCultureTeamFootballBearsInvolvedHigh SchoolMagazinesFootball TeamPariahs Author:Tom Perrotta
“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
“The craft of writing is all the stuff that you can learn through school; go to workshops and read books. Learn characterization, plot and dialogue and pacing and word choice and point of view. Then there's also the art of it which is sort of the unknown, the inspiration, the stuff that is noncerebral.” WritingArtBookInspirationSchoolChoicesStuffViewsPoint Of ViewDialogueCraftsPlotWorkshopsCharacterizationPacingWord Choice Author:Garth Stein
“I've been writing since I'm five years old. I've been writing books since high school - junior high, high school. I write every single day. I never thought I'd be published.” WritingYearsBookSchoolFiveHigh SchoolFive YearsJuniorsWriting A BookFive Year OldsJunior HighHigh School Junior Author:Karrine Steffans
“I loved to write; in my late teens I had a 'zine. But it wasn't until I went back to school, later on in my 20s, that I actually saw that I had writing talent.” WritingSchoolSawsTalentLateTeensZines Author:Sonja Sohn
“With demands for special education or standardized test prep being shouted in their ears, public schools can't always hear a parent when he says: 'I want my child to be able to write contracts in Spanish,' or, 'I want my child to shake hands firmly,' or, 'I want my child to study statistics and accounting, not calculus.” WantWritingChildrenHandsAbleSchoolParentStudySpecialDemandTestsEarsMy ChildrenShakesStatisticsContractsPublic SchoolAccountingCalculusPrepsSpecial Education Author:Amity Shlaes
“People would say, Can we develop a sitcom around you? and I would say, Not interested. I'm very happy doing standup and writing and taking my kids to school.” PeopleWritingKidsSchoolNot InterestedVery HappySitcomAggravation Author:Jeff Foxworthy
“Writing is not something you can do or you can't. It's not even something that 'other people do' or 'for smart people only' or even 'for people who finished school and went to University'. Nonsense. Anyone can do it. But no-one can do it straight off the bat. Like plastering, brain surgery or assembling truck engines, you have to do a bit of training - get your hands dirty - and make some mistakes.” PeopleWritingHandsSchoolBitsCan DoMistakeBrainSmartTrainingUniversityFinishedDirtyNonsenseEnginesBatsSurgeryTruckSmart PeopleAssemblingBrain SurgeryFinished School Author:Jasper Fforde
“I've always been a writer, and in high school, I was the editor of my school newspaper and I got a writing scholarship. It's always been a passion of mine.” WritingSchoolPassionMinesHigh SchoolNewspapersEditorsScholarship Author:Zoe Lister-Jones
“When I was around eight, I learned how to touch-type at school, and I received a computer as a present. I started writing plays, and for many years I thought I would be a playwright.” WritingYearsPlayWould BeSchoolTypeComputerEightPlaywright Author:Gabrielle Zevin
“I'm of the school 'Write what you know.' You can educate yourself, but the best writing usually comes from the heart.” KnowsWritingHeartSchoolEducate Author:Terrence McNally
“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
“The journalism school helped me develop writing skills, and I had been enjoying cartooning from a very young age. My interest in puppetry, however, came much later.” WritingAgeSchoolYoungEnjoyInterestSkillsJournalismYoung AgeWriting Skills Author:William Jackson
“I do not know how old I was when the daydreams became more than that, and I decided to write them down, but by the time I entered high school, I was confident that I would one day be a writer.” KnowsWritingSchoolKnow HowOne DayHigh SchoolDecidedDaydreaming Author:Mildred D. Taylor
“There are many ways of writing badly about painting... There is an 'appreciative' language of threadbare, not inaccurate, but overexposed and irritating words... the language of the schools which 'situates' works and artists in schools and movements... novelists and poets [that] see paintings as allegories of writing.” WayWritingSchoolArtistLanguageMovementPaintingPoetNovelistsIrritatingAppreciativeAllegory Author:A. S. Byatt
“I'm writing a film called 'Bug.' It's an original script, and it's not about killer insects. It's a thriller set in a high school. The bug of the title refers to a surveillance device.” WritingSchoolFilmHigh SchoolOriginalsScriptsTitlesDevicesKillersInsectsBugsSurveillanceThrillers Author:Wes Craven
“Drawing used to be a civilized thing to do, like reading and writing. It was taught in elementary schools. It was democratic. It was a boon to happiness.” WritingSchoolUsedReadingTaughtDemocraticDrawingUsed To BeThings To DoCivilizedElementary SchoolReading And WritingBoon Author:Michael Kimmelman
“To draw does not simply mean to reproduce contours; the drawing does not simply consist in the idea: the drawing is even the expression, the interior form, the plan, the model. Look what remains after that! The drawing is three fourths and a half of what constitutes painting. If I had to put a sign over my door to the atelier, I would write: School of drawing, and I'm certain that I would create painters.” IfsWritingLooksMeanDoeIdeasSchoolFormCertainThreeHalfPlansDoorsPaintingExpressionModelsDrawsRemainsDrawingPainterInteriors Author:Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres
“My writing is really intuitive. As a kid, I went to school in New Jersey and hung out in New York, so the way kids used to talk got into our earlier songs.” WayWritingKidsSchoolUsedSongNew YorkHungIntuitiveJerseyNew Jersey Author:Donald Fagen
“I failed to get into drama school, and my best friend told me I should do stand-up instead. I was always doing gags and voices, so he booked a gig for me without telling me. I only had four days to write it. I did a seven-minute set; the first four minutes were terrible, but the last two were amazing.” ShouldWritingFirstsTwoSchoolLastsVoiceFourMinutesTerribleDramaSevenMy Best FriendGigsGags Author:Marcus Brigstocke
“I write on a computer, but I've run the complete gambit. When I was very young, I wrote with a ballpoint pen in school notebooks. Then I got pretentious and started writing with a dip pen on parchment (I wrote at least a novel-length poem that way). Moved on to a fountain pen. Then a typewriter, then an electric self-correct. Then someone gave me a word processor and I was amazed at being able to fit ten pages on one of those floppy discs.” WayWritingSelfRunningAbleSchoolYoungNovelFitTenComputerPagesMovedLengthPensElectricAmazedFountainNotebookTypewritersPretentiousDipMoved OnDiscsProcessorsGambitFountain PensBallpoint Pens Author:Charles de Lint
“While I was writing poems, I would often divert myself by reading detective novels, I liked them. And there was a period when I read many of them. I absorbed the form, and I liked it, it was a good one, mostly the hard-boiled school, you know, Chandler, Hammett, and their heirs. That was the direction that interested me most.” KnowsWritingHardSchoolFormReadingNovelPeriodsDetectivesHeirsWriting Poems Author:Paul Auster
“[My mom] had always wanted to write a children's book. She was a children's librarian and an elementary school teacher, so of course she loves children and children's literature.” WritingChildrenBookWantedSchoolCoursesLiteratureTeacherMomMy MomLibrarianChildren's BooksElementary SchoolChildren LoveSchool TeachersChildren's Literature Author:Jenna Bush
“My books have done extremely well, I know. But I don't honestly feel much different from when I began to write. I still think we have a long way to go. I suppose my name means more in Nigeria today than it did five years ago. But I feel the job that literature should do in our community has not even started. It's not yet part of the life of the nation. We are still at the beginning. It's a big beginning, because now we are catching the next generation in the schools. When I was their age, I had nothing to read that had any relevance to my own environment.” ThinkingKnowsWayFeelsShouldWritingYearsWellsMeanLongStillsBookDifferentDoneBigsAgeTodaySchoolJobsNextLiteratureNamesNationsCommunityMy OwnEnvironmentFiveGenerationsYears AgoHonestlyFive YearsLong WayNext GenerationCatchingRelevanceOur CommunityNigeriaLong Way To Go Book:Conversations with Chinua Achebe Source: Conversations with Chinua Achebe