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I graduated from my Master of Fine Arts program for writing for children and young adults at Vermont College of Fine Arts. Of course, for a master's program, you have to do a ton of reading. I would get up, usually around 5:30, to do my reading; otherwise, I would fall behind.

— Lisa Papademetriou

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✓Similar Perspectives

I went to school for creative writing in college, and I wound up about six hours short of my degree.

— Jason Isbell

I have a Bachelor of Arts in English, which means I had a lot of formal training in reading.

— Kate DiCamillo

Aim to write for an hour per day. I used to be a teacher, and an hour a day before school was all it took for me to write my first book. Don't get discouraged if a holiday or illness interrupts your writing habit. Just start it up again.

— Caroline Lawrence

Back in my younger years, I read an average of a book a day. That was when I was going to school full time and working a job after school 30 hours or more a week.

— James A. Moore

I didn't start writing until late high school and then I was just diddling. Mainly I loved to read and my writing was an outgrowth of that.

— Junot Diaz

I went to college, but I learned to write by reading - and writing.

— Daniel Pinkwater

I grew up in a house full of books and parents who read, which led to me to reading from a very young age. And reading seemed to naturally progress to writing.

— Garth Nix

I took a lot of writing courses.

— Danny Strong

But usually I'll wake up and start writing about nine o'clock. I'll probably write for about three hours, and I'll do that over the next month and a half.

— Stanley Tucci

✗Opposing Perspectives

I entered the literary world, really, from outside. My entire background has been in sciences; I was a biology major in college, then went to medical school. I've never had any formal training in writing.

— Khaled Hosseini