I spent three days a week for 10 years educating myself in the public library, and it's better than college. People should educate themselves - you can get a complete education for no money. At the end of 10 years, I had read every book in the library and I'd written a thousand stories.
I don't believe in colleges and universities. I believe in libraries because most students don't have any money. When I graduated from high school, it was during the Depression and we had no money. I couldn't go to college, so I went to the library three days a week for 10 years.
I spent three days a week for 10 years educating myself in the public library, and it's better than college.
You can’t learn to write in college. It’s a very bad place for writers because the teachers always think they know more than you do-and they don’t. They have prejudices.
Libraries are absolutely at the center of my life. Since I couldn't afford to go to college, I attended the library three or four days a week from the age of eighteen on, and graduated from the library when I was twenty-eight.
You must live feverishly in a library. Colleges are not going to do any good unless you are raised and live in a library everyday of your life.
I never went to college, so I went to the library.
I don't believe in colleges and universities.
Out of the nursery into the college and back into the nursery; there’s your intellectual pattern for the past five centuries or more.