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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

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

— Lynne Truss

I was editor of my high school literary magazine and a reporter for the school newspaper.

— Jeffery Deaver

I was a scholarship minor public school day boy at Ardingly College and later Whitgift School. Then, straight into work as a journalist -…

— Neil Gaiman

I was an English major in college, took a ton of creative writing courses, and was a newspaper reporter for 10 years.

— Jennifer Weiner

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 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 was the second female writer ever hired at 'Late Night.' When I applied for the job in 1988, I had no way of…

— Nell Scovell

One of the most productive times in my early writing life was while I had a full-time job as a word processor in a…

— John Lescroart

The first job I was offered was as an editorial assistant. I think it was the best thing for me, in terms of being…

— Terri Windling

I wrote for a weekly magazine and then edited a literary magazine, but I did not really feel comfortable with the profession of journalism…

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante

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

— Laura Moser