Beach Quote by Chris Pavone

I was a copy editor. I loved it. I love grammar. I'm obsessed. I was a bartender. I worked in a cafe. I was…

— Pauline Chalamet

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

— Lynne Truss

In the mid-2000s, I kind of accidentally became a music editor.

— Steven Price

I was working for Time-Life Books from 1962 to 1970, as a staff writer, and after that, I was a journalist. Eventually, I became…

— Edmund White

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

— Marilyn Hacker

I worked for a publishing company in Hollywood.

— Mac Davis

I used to be a film and music journalist, and wrote for different magazines in the 1990s. I still love music, but the experience…

— Graham Linehan

The first four and a half years was me in the studio every day, writing songs for other people. I had jobs, too -…

— Frank Ocean

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

My husband is an editor, and in fact he was the first person who hired me as an assistant editor. Then we fell in…

— Kari Skogland

I used to be a part-time enthusiast press games writer when I was starting to get into making indie games.

— Zoe Quinn

I started off as a studio pianist in Hollywood.

— Skitch Henderson