Quotes About Author

I wasn't really into body piercings until I found that about half my female students had them.

I used to get so many letters from students about the ending of 'Pro Femina.' So I had a stamp made that said 'irony, irony, irony' to put on a postcard and mail it back.

Providence School of Art students used to sneak into P Funk concerts.

I am always urging my students to honor their writing practice, to set up a schedule.

There are very few works of fiction that take you inside the heads of all characters. I tell my writing students that one of the most important questions to ask yourself when you begin writing a story is this: Whose story is it? You need to make a commitment to one or perhaps a few characters.

I had no interest in history classes. In fact, I used to sleep in history classes, I used to bunk classes. But that is how students are supposed to be, no? I developed an interest in history much later. I have made a few films based on historical facts.

When I went to Harvard and studied planning, I found I didn't have the skills or the strength to become the kind of public person who could go out and lobby government agencies.

In my junior year, I studied geology on Saturday mornings at the Museum of Natural History. Mineralogy has always been a major interest.

I studied writing at NYU. I graduated high school in Nashville and then went to the creative writing program, and in the first year, that's when I wrote 'Kids.'

I wouldn't have any fears about coming to England because I have played against English sides in the Champions League and studied the English game.

I studied literature design and fashion design.

I taught myself until I was about 16. And then I studied classical guitar with some teachers.

I like to think that since I was about 19, I have studied human decision-making and problem-solving.

I can move my characters through it easily, because I understand the background; I've really studied it.

I think that after Church got his Ph.D. he studied in Europe, maybe in the Netherlands, for a year or two.

In particular, I studied German and Russian biomechanics.

I studied music formally. I was probably less formal about my study of acting than anything.

I studied screenwriting at film school and was constantly learning how to construct three-act dramas.

I studied history when I was at school, at A-level, actually. I wouldn't profess to being very knowledgeable though, no.

I studied journalism at university, and I started a little bit of work on a woman's magazine called Minx that was aimed at 18- to 24-year-olds.

When I started out as a novelist, I thought I was going to be a private-eye writer. That was my intent, and that's what I studied, I mean, scholarly.

I studied the short story as part of my creative writing course at university but then set off as a novelist. Generally, there is a sense that even if you want to write short stories, you need to do a novel first.

I studied a truckload of true crime, praying for illumination, but most true crime relies on luridness and voyeurism for effect.

What I thought would be fun would be Squirrel Girl being this computer science student, working in STEM, because you don't see a lot of characters there, never mind female characters. Also, I studied computer science, so it's not too hard to write.