As an aspiring novelist, if Pratchett can do it without an A-level, surely I can do it with a moderate pass!<p>I'm personally eternally grateful that I reneged from going to university. In that time I've emigrated, got married and I've worked real jobs that have given me tons of worldly experience, all of which has helped my writing immensely. All of which would never have happened at university. I would have been the same super-geek I had in highschool who was afraid to talk to any girl I didn't know. Now, I'm no longer cliched and formulaic . . . which I suppose is a great place to be for any writer!