My academic identity is that of a folklorist, and for many years I have taught only folklore courses.

- Alan Dundes

I'm not an academic; I'm just a bookish Joe who gets passionate about certain writers and suddenly wants to read everything they've ever written and find out why they wrote it.

- Blake Bailey

Personally I discovered that you could go through the academy as a young scholar, come out, and almost immediately have an impact on the academic environment.

- Bernice Johnson Reagon

I was so naive about writing, I went to the public library and checked out the only volume they had on the topic - an academic treatise about publishing from the WWII era.

- Bruce Feiler

All too often, academic departments defend their territory with the passion of cornered animals, though with far less justification.

- Bruce Jackson

The information you get from social media is not a substitute for academic discipline at all.

- Bill Nye

The armoury of having any academic education does not necessarily set you up for being a good or better actor.

- Benedict Cumberbatch

I think the tradition of well-written history hasn't been squashed out of the academic world as much in Britain as it has in the United States.

- Adam Hochschild

I tried to oppose the academic to the marketplace.

- Ad Reinhardt

As an academic, this was not the lifestyle I had planned for myself. Now I see myself everywhere.

- Ahmet Davutoglu

Some of my academic friends think I've fallen from a very special grace.

- A. Bartlett Giamatti

There is far too much literary criticism of the wrong kind. That is why I never could have survived as an academic.

- Anne Stevenson

Well, that was in 1995 when I resigned from my last academic job.

- Azar Nafisi

I did a lot of my writing as though I was an academic, doing some piece of research as perfectly as possible.

- A. S. Byatt

I am not an academic who happens to have written a novel. I am a novelist who happens to be quite good academically.

- A. S. Byatt

I'd somehow always thought of the classics of literature as something apart from me, something to do with academic life and not something you enjoyed.

- Alan Bennett

I always had a knack for improvisation. I can write down the notes I play, but never really had a proper academic musical background. I suppose I'm blessed and cursed by the fact I have that freedom.

- Anthony Hopkins

If I had been a member of the academic establishment, I could have done other experiments.

- Albert Ellis

I'm a commercial person, not an academic.

- Alan Sugar

I don't believe in firing professors. They have academic freedom.

- Alan Dershowitz