Wayne Rogers Quotes

I loved being in Cambridge. I think about it often. It was this great little capsule of time to me.

If I had taken a doctoral degree, it would have stifled any writing capacity.

Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them.

I was mostly an indoor girl at university. Where other students did drama or music or sport alongside their degrees, I wrote. I used to work on essays and classwork during the day and 'The Bone Season' in the evenings.

Young gentlemen with literary aspirations usually start a new university magazine, which for wit and pungency is designed to eclipse all such previous efforts, and I was no exception in the matter of this popular gambit.

At age eleven, I became a member of the circulating library of my home town. From there on I was rarely seen outside but was reading two to four books per week, the subjects ranging from archaeology over ethnology and geography to zoology. Needless to say that I did not do much homework.

Within the university... you can study without waiting for any efficient or immediate result. You may search, just for the sake of searching, and try for the sake of trying. So there is a possibility of what I would call playing. It's perhaps the only place within society where play is possible to such an extent.

I came to Nashville to go to Belmont. I went to school to be a student.

I read a book every night. I really am that nerd, so when I get to go to the Smithsonian and get to go in the back rooms and play with stuff, things like that, for a guy like me, that's amazing.

I thought, 'If I go to uni, I can read and watch people and take many different subjects - take philosophy modules - and have time to travel in the summers,' which I did. I thought, 'I hope this will make me a better actor,' and it did.

I didn't grow up watching films, as I was more academically inclined.

I read almost everything that comes my way.

Oh, he's magic. Faulkner has opened passages in my brain. You do things you'd never expect.

I went to graduate school in Iowa City, at the Iowa Writers' Workshop, where the most passionate thing I did was attend University of Iowa basketball games.

University is great, but it wasn't right for me.

Sometimes you have Harvard undergraduates who stun you with the depth of their knowledge. That is why it is great to be at a university like this.

Reading feeds writing: it presents you with new ideas to engage with.

I loved college. If I could've gone another year, I'd have gone another year, you know what I mean? Those were some of the best memories of my life.

The beauty of the university world is that you can use it as a microcosm to parody anything in the 'real' world.

I'm always reading. I've loved reading since I was young, and I've always loved sinking my teeth into a different world, especially one that you begin to create in your head.

I like books. I've always got a literature book going. I'd be in there reading, in my off time.

Pity the man who has a favorite restaurant, but not a favorite author. He's picked out a favorite place to feed his body, but he doesn't have a favorite place to feed his mind!

When I was about twenty-one, I published a few poems. Maybe I wrote a couple of stories before, but I really began to write stories in my mid-thirties. My kids were still little, and they were in school and day care, and I had begun to think a lot about wanting to tell some stories and not being able to do it in poetry.

I think I write in order to discover on my shelf a new book that I would enjoy reading, or to see a new play that would engross me.

I wasn't all that attracted to writing originally. I read a great deal. My parents read a great deal. I do know that as my interest in tennis waned, my interest in academics increased. I mean, I started doing my homework in high school and discovering that it was somewhat fun. And then in college I barely even played on the team because just classes were much more interesting.