Copy Quote by David Grann

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

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

— Jennifer Weiner

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 came to write after several mini careers. I did live theatre, managed a cosmetics store and was a local television personality.

— Sandra Brown

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

— Nithya Menen

I may not have become a good writer, but I managed to make a living out of writing.

— Ruskin Bond

I started off as a journalist when I was young and I did not get paid unless I wrote three stories a day.

— Ryan Murphy

I've always been a writer. I started getting paid for writing in college. Where it transitioned from commentary to journalism was in that shift…

— Melissa Gira Grant

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've wanted to be a writer since I was seven, but I didn't grow up in family where people aspired to live as writers.

— Jacqueline Woodson

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

— Frank Darabont

I always wanted to be some kind of writer or newspaper reporter. But after college... I did other things.

— Jackie Kennedy