Clubs Quote by Bill Nye

I used to work in the video game industry before I became a full-time writer.

— Marie Lu

I've always been a writer. I started getting paid for writing in college. Where it transitioned from commentary to journalism was in that shift…

— Melissa Gira Grant

I was not going to use writing for advertising or journalism. I would tend bar, load trucks, chauffeur - do whatever it took. But…

— Dennis Lehane

I got a journalism degree. I started doing journalism - I interned at 'Cosmopolitan' magazine in the 1970s, which probably wasn't the best place…

— Anne M. Mulcahy

I've basically worked as a journalist and a writer.

— Laura Moser

I was a freelance journalist, and it was a struggle because I had to pitch all the time, research, and stay on top of…

— David Mccandless

I didn't have a lot of great jobs. I was a third-shift legal proofreader. I did office work for people where a friend might…

— Charles Bock

I've been working since I was a child. I worked cutting lawns, delivering newspapers; I was a telephone salesperson; I was a guitar repairman.

— Nile Rodgers

I wrote my first two long novels and an anthology of short narratives, when I was a manager of my own jazz bar. There…

— Haruki Murakami

I treat my writing like a day job, like my main job, even if for many years I was doing other jobs to pay…

— Miguel Syjuco

I used to split my time between writing, music and painting. I would work on a book and then abandon it, start a band,…

— Isaac Marion

And then afterwards I worked in advertising for a year which taught me about writing even when you don't want to (laughter) because there's…

— Nicholas Stoller