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I’m of the school ‘Write what you know.’ You can educate yourself, but the best writing usually comes from the heart  (Writing In School Quotes) I was always writing scripts, and I had made several shorts, before and after film school. But I worked a variety of temp positions over the years.  (Writing In School Quotes) I read a lot when I was in school in the United States, and even though writing in English is very difficult for me, I wrote in journals.  (Writing In School Quotes) I wasn’t particularly good at school so always found essay writing hard, so I didn’t do that well at English or history, even though I enjoyed it.  (Writing In School Quotes) In high school, I wanted to be an actress. Until I got to college and took some creative writing courses. Then I decided I wanted to become a novelist.  (Writing In School Quotes) I always enjoyed writing. I did playlets in high school, I did radio shows in college. That’s one of the reasons I went down to Second City, because you could do acting and writing.  (Writing In School Quotes) I love writing about the summer between high school and college. It’s the last gasp of really being a teen.  (Writing In School Quotes) The formula for creative writing in high school or college is write what you know  (Writing In School Quotes) I took a writing class in college, liked it, and my first year out of school I couldn’t get a job, so I wrote a play.  (Writing In School Quotes) I started writing about New Mexico in an autobiography class I was taking for school, and realized that it was very inspiring place for me.  (Writing In School Quotes) Schools are really bad now. Schools are not only bad in reading, writing and arithmetic, they’re worse in cultural aspects, like in music and art. They don’t teach you anything.  (Writing In School Quotes) In high school, I was very active in extracurricular activities such as art, theatre, and choir. I also wrote for the school newspaper, but not regularly, because I never liked writing non-fiction very much  (Writing In School Quotes) I just hate sitting and writing - I had to do that in school. Plus, I have terrible handwriting  (Writing In School Quotes) I’ve taken every writing class I’ve had available. I took classes in high school, and I took English and writing classes in community college, but I dropped out of college. I also attended a local writing workshop two years ago  (Writing In School Quotes) When I was in high school and college, my other real focus was, actually, fiction writing. So in college, I had done all these seminars with these various writers-in-residence  (Writing In School Quotes) People would say, Can we develop a sitcom around you? and I would say, Not interested. I’m very happy doing standup and writing and taking my kids to school  (Writing In School Quotes) In high school, I won a prize for an essay on tuberculosis. When I got through writing the essay, I was sure I had the disease  (Writing In School Quotes) This is the practice school of writing. Like running, the more you do it, the better you get at it  (Writing In School Quotes) I considered going to film school; I took a course in film and was very interested in filmmaking as well as film writing  (Writing In School Quotes) I loved writing for the school newspaper. I liked to report and interview people, but I really liked to write columns, funny columns  (Writing In School Quotes) The journalism school helped me develop writing skills, and I had been enjoying cartooning from a very young age. My interest in puppetry, however, came much later  (Writing In School Quotes) The only way to raise the quality of writing in school is to create, share, and celebrate the specific criteria for that quality with everybody on a regular basis  (Writing In School Quotes)