Gayle Forman Quotes

I started going to Ohio University when I was in my mid-thirties, ended up with an English degree when I was forty.

I'm a 27-year-old freshman, and returning to college after a seven-year break from high school was by far the hardest thing I've ever done in my life.

You can go to college when you are 30 or 40.

I feel like today we always glorify the young, just-plucked-from-college writer. But it's much harder to start writing later, in middle age, struggling on a book around a full-time job and family.

After I left high school and got my GED, I studied broadcast journalism for a year at a community college.

I didn't go to university straight after school. I went at night.

I never went to college when I was young and am looking forward to giving it a try... at age 65!

When I got out of high school, I thought, I'll take a year or two off and play the clubs, get this out of my system, and then go to med school.

When I turned fifty, I decided to quit the mill and go to graduate school.

When I got out of the army, I had the G.I. Bill. Since I had no high school education or anything like that, I came to NYU, and they took a chance on me and let me in.

I didn't go to uni and although I don't have regrets in my life, I have two nephews and I'd encourage them to go to uni as I don't think you need to grow up too quick.

I didn't graduate. I was doing theater in Michigan the summer after my junior year and just moved on to New York.

I got into medicine at university, then deferred a year to see. Then I started acting and just never went back to university.

I didn't get into university, so I had to go to drama college!

I did some good stuff over in the U.K., but I wasn't consistently working. For a while there, I was going, 'Do I really want to do this - should I go back to university?'

I wrote my first song when I was 54 years old.

There's so much pressure on young people to go to university when they're 18 or 19, but actually, in the grand scheme of it, I don't think it matters to do it at that time.

I was obsessed with the idea of going to college. And I took many years off after that, so I sort of missed the weird, crazy transition that was what making movies was in the nineties to what's happening now.

I didn't want to go to school for more than four years, and I didn't know what you did with a bachelor's in biology. So I switched over and got my degree in communications. I regret it now. It was one of the most idiotic things I ever did.

I studied acting throughout high school, then modelling took over because it brought more opportunity. When I quit modelling, coming back to Vancouver, I registered at the University of Victoria.

Me going to college was not an option.

I got a sociology degree and then had an opportunity to go to graduate school. But I said no, because I wanted to give songwriting a shot.

I went to business school in my thirties.

I went to Carnegie Mellon for a year and a month or two, and then I dropped out because I got a movie. I didn't anticipate ever leaving school - I was a really serious drama student - and then that happened, and my life sort of took a turn.

I had always wanted to go to college but found my life taking a different path.