I envisioned that as my life: staying in academia to make a living and then taking summers off to write my novels.

- David Duchovny

I wasn't tempted to go into academia for a second.

- Frances O'Connor

In academia, I discovered that issues and insights, commonplace among the scholars, are viewed as highly controversial and even as 'heresy' in the churches.

- John Shelby Spong

I'm completely dyslexic, so academia was never really my path.

- Joe Anderson

I could have seen myself going into academia, but I don't love it; I just like it.

- Mira Sorvino