I had a little portable typewriter. I call it my Harlem Literary Fellowship.

- Amiri Baraka

My first letter of acceptance, to UMass - Amherst, came with an offer of a fellowship and a note from John Edgar Wideman.

- Alexander Chee

I used my NEA fellowship to write my novel, 'In Country,' which was published by Harper & Row in 1985.

- Bobbie Ann Mason

To be told you've won a MacArthur fellowship is very flattering and gratifying personally.

- David Simon

When I had a fellowship at the Smithsonian, I asked for a couch in the office because I liked to lie down and take a break.

- Gloria Steinem

You get guys around a campfire, and they start telling their stories. That's the fellowship that they want to be in.

- John Eldredge

In 1948 I was appointed to a Lectureship in Physics and in 1949 elected to a Fellowship at Trinity College.

- Martin Ryle

I practised as an architect for 10 years. I qualified in 1973 with a fellowship diploma of architecture. World Series Cricket gave me the freedom to go out and pursue architecture.

- Max Walker

There is a fellowship more quiet even than solitude, and which, rightly understood, is solitude made perfect.

- Robert Louis Stevenson

In college, I won the Irene Ryan; it's kind of like a collegiate Tony, which got my career going. I was honored. I won a fellowship to the Kennedy Center, and that's where I got my agent.

- Zachary Knighton