Great Quote by Charles Bock

So for a long time, I did a lot of freelance writing in addition to writing fiction and such - I was a food…

— Tod Goldberg

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

— Marilyn Hacker

My first job was with the Burns Detective Agency. They sent me over to the East River to guard coal barges during these god-awful…

— Sam Shepard

My first job was as a groundskeeper at the local ballpark in the town where I grew up. There was a lot of down…

— Owen King

I taught workshops at universities. I wrote for magazines. This took time and insane amounts of juggling, but it's how I earned a living.

— Cheryl Strayed

I did a lot of weird jobs, like most writers do.

— Celeste Ng

I come from a working-class background and it wasn't in my world to be a writer - I had no direct access to those…

— Roisin Conaty

My first job, honestly, was as a proofreader. I say that a little disparagingly, but it actually was this sort of incredible thing, where…

— Christine Vachon

Like many people, I kicked around, struggled to become a writer, finally got my first full-time job around 27, 28, at 'The Hill' newspaper.…

— David Grann

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 studied journalism, though I never really became a scribe.

— Nithya Menen

I never had only one job. I was either playing ball or writing or doing TV or modeling.

— Gabrielle Reece