Book Quote by Curtis Sittenfeld

At the same time, I went through college, received a Ph.D. and started to teach. I wrote books.

— Frederick Lenz

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 was studying sculpture and painting and was working on a degree so I could become a teacher. I really liked teaching, and it…

— Kurt Wagner

I studied philosophy, religious studies, and English. My training was writing four full-length novels and hiring an editor to tear them apart. I had…

— Ted Dekker

After college, I spent a decade working the kinds of jobs that I write about - bartender, shoe salesman, kitchen man - while voraciously…

— George Pelecanos

Wrote my first "novel" when I was six. Studied a bit in college, but then pursued history... But when I started writing professionally, it…

— David B. Coe

I'm an author. And writers write books. And writing books is a full-time career.

— Marianne Williamson

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

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 was freelancing for years in Cork and around. I also wrote freelance pieces for 'The Irish Times.'

— Kevin Barry

When I was studying in London, I worked part-time as a waitress. I was teaching drama to kids. I did a lot of odd…

— Kalki Koechlin

I began my writing career in a very isolated place and time.

— Lois McMaster Bujold