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For example, many colleges in their writing programs teach some of my work  (Writing In College Quotes) When I went to college I took a creative writing class and decided in a week to be a writer  (Writing In College Quotes) As a kid, I was just writing scripts and taking whatever film classes I could in college  (Writing In College Quotes) For those two years in college I was constantly singing and writing and playing in coffee houses and stuff.  (Writing In College Quotes) In high school, I wanted to be an actress. Until I got to college and took some creative writing courses. Then I decided I wanted to become a novelist.  (Writing In College Quotes) Everyone is taught the essentials of writing for at least 13 years, maybe more if they go to college. Nobody is taught music or tap dancing that way.  (Writing In College Quotes) I always enjoyed writing. I did playlets in high school, I did radio shows in college. That’s one of the reasons I went down to Second City, because you could do acting and writing.  (Writing In College Quotes) I went to college and studied writing, and I got involved in theater. It’s always been my passion.  (Writing In College Quotes) I graduated with a B.A. from Goddard College in 1991 and then studied poetry for a year in the M.F.A. in Writing Program at Vermont College.  (Writing In College Quotes) Well, my background is journalism. I don’t have any creative-writing experience except for one class I took as a sophomore in college.  (Writing In College Quotes) I love writing about the summer between high school and college. It’s the last gasp of really being a teen.  (Writing In College Quotes) The formula for creative writing in high school or college is write what you know  (Writing In College Quotes) I’ve lost my writing skills since college. I couldn’t write a book. It would take a long time.  (Writing In College Quotes) I’ve taken every writing class I’ve had available. I took classes in high school, and I took English and writing classes in community college, but I dropped out of college. I also attended a local writing workshop two years ago  (Writing In College Quotes) When I was in high school and college, my other real focus was, actually, fiction writing. So in college, I had done all these seminars with these various writers-in-residence  (Writing In College Quotes) I discovered Christopher Isherwood in college. His writing style is so direct, warm, and inclusive  (Writing In College Quotes) Here is a lesson in creative writing. First rule: Do not use semicolons. They are transvestite hermaphrodites representing absolutely nothing. All they do is show you’ve been to college  (Writing In College Quotes) I was a fine arts major in college, and a painter for many years. And I found that, like writing, art is very similar  (Writing In College Quotes) When I graduated college I needed to make money while I was pursuing acting, so I read screenplays and made a living writing coverage on them for studios  (Writing In College Quotes) To me, all writing is like music. And especially dialogue. I studied music in college; that is what I wanted to be, a composer. Acting got me sidetracked  (Writing In College Quotes) I tried writing fiction as a little kid, but had a teacher humiliate me, so didn't write again until I was a senior in college  (Writing In College Quotes) I was an English major in college, took a ton of creative writing courses, and was a newspaper reporter for 10 years  (Writing In College Quotes) I first started writing fiction in college because I was attracted to beautiful sentences. I loved to read them. I wanted to write them  (Writing In College Quotes)