Quote

I was an English major in college!

My master's degree was in English literature.

I was an English major in college, and then I went to graduate school in English at the University of North Carolina for three years.

I was an English major at UCLA when I was 18, and then I left after a year to start acting. I was educating myself during that time.

In the '60s, I was teaching humanities at a college in upstate New York and trying to publish a novel I'd written in graduate school. But nothing was happening. So I moved to New York City and got a job as a messenger at a place that made movies.

In junior high, I was still writing poems and stories. In college, I was a journalism major. When I got out of college, I went to work for an educational publisher, so I was still writing, developing curriculums.

I spent a year at Southwestern Louisiana Institute, then transferred back to the University of Texas, where I majored in English and history.

I was an English major in college, took a ton of creative writing courses, and was a newspaper reporter for 10 years.