Career Quote by Brock Yates

After university, I got a job sub-editing and for years I was a literary editor.

— Lynne Truss

I worked at all kinds of jobs, mostly commercial editing.

— Marilyn Hacker

I opted for a freelance writing career. I was lucky enough to have the means to do it.

— Matt Ridley

There was a part of me that always wanted to be an editor.

— David Grann

I spent 20 years of my career primarily being a writer for hire.

— Frank Darabont

I just fell into the job as a fashion editor at a teen magazine. I was there for two years, and I left there…

— Rachel Zoe

I didn't do a masters in creative writing until I was 26, which is quite old, and then I found myself in New York…

— Rachel Kushner

I got my master's degree and then started working as a production assistant. I was writing my debut film, the crime drama 'Little Woods,'…

— Nia DaCosta

I never imagined when I began writing in the early 1960s I'd become professional and my life would be transformed.

— Sue Townsend

When I was 30 or so - by that time I had become an assistant D.A. - I decided I would try to write…

— William Landay

I first started working in film when I was 17. I was a director's assistant, an editor.

— Mathieu Amalric

I studied journalism, though I never really became a scribe.

— Nithya Menen