Firsts Quote by Donald Ray Pollock

I mostly write about the working poor. Somehow, they're not being written about much anymore. I'm very interested in people who are in a…

— Bonnie Jo Campbell

I was a very good nurse, but I burned out after eight years or so because it wasn't what I truly wanted to do.…

— Sue Monk Kidd

I considered that I had to write stories about the people I had met, with whom I'd worked, the history of my books -…

— Anatoly Rybakov

I was a writer first, and knew I'd be a storyteller at age seven. But since my parents are very practical, they urged me…

— Tess Gerritsen

I started writing stories in my spare time.

— Ken Follett

I got my Bachelor's degree in nursing and worked nine years - even taught nursing in a college - before I stopped and said…

— Sue Monk Kidd

I was in the hospital and I was paralyzed and I went through all of these things. I've had all of these crazy experiences…

— Steve Toltz

I was tired of working in an office and I wanted to make a living telling stories. There are not many people who find…

— Nick Antosca

When I was in grad school, I wrote one early story that was Vegas, and then I stayed away from it. I was trying…

— Charles Bock

I never started writing because I wanted to write myself stuff. It was really more that I had these stories to tell, and I…

— Josh Lawson

I have written stories since I was a child.

— Rachel Joyce

I don't have any great first job tales: I've never worked on a tramp steamer or in a coal mine or anything like that.…

— Mary Gordon