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I dropped out of school when I was 15 years old. I dropped out because I guess I wasn't getting anything out of my investment in the school.

At 12 I dropped out of school but I had lost interest in it at a much earlier age. For me, school was very very stressful.

I dropped out of high school four times between the ages of 12 to 17.

I dropped out of high school three days into my senior year because I hated it because New York City public school is a mess. I certainly wasn't one for sitting in a classroom. Then I went off to college to North Carolina School of the Arts, then quit that after two years.

I dropped out of high school. I really had no interest in doing any school work whatsoever.

I dropped out of school, but I didn't drop out of life. I would leave the house each morning and go to the main branch of the Carnegie Library in Oakland where they had all the books in the world... I felt suddenly liberated from the constraints of a pre-arranged curriculum that labored through one book in eight months.

At the end of 2002, mid-way through my junior year at Yale and increasingly freaked out about the deepening climate crisis, I dropped out to try to build a youth movement.

When I dropped out of high school at age 16, I didn't know I was going to become a writer - I just knew I'd never been happy in school, and I had this strong suspicion I'd be happy doing other things.

I quit high school the first day of 10th grade because I felt like I was wasting time.

Due to financial reasons, I dropped out of school after eight years of formal schooling.