Draws Quote by Ernie Colon

I was a writer for hire. I wrote to pay the bills.

— Damien Chazelle

At the end of the 1950s, I started working at a publishing company, Estudios Cor, as production manager, so returning, but not as an…

— Jose Saramago

I was hired as a penciler.

— Gil Kane

I wrote a query letter to an editor - a friend of a friend. The editor called me an idiot, told me never to…

— Daniel H. Wilson

At the very beginning, I was a page at Letterman, and I freelanced for any place that would let me write any word. I…

— Ben Schwartz

I wanted to be a literary writer, so I wrote story after story and sent them to 'The New Yorker.'

— Diane Mott Davidson

I was once hired to write a column for 'The Guardian' and then got fired before I'd submitted my first one. That was unusual.…

— Toby Young

There were a lot of people who were willing to write a letter for me. Not because I was academically inclined, but because I…

— Sam Smith

At the very beginning, I was a page at Letterman, and I freelanced for any place that would let me write any word. I…

— Ben Schwartz

I used to pick up lettering jobs when I was first starting in the business like in between if I couldn't get other work.

— Ralph Reese

Finally, I found a wonderful agent who wanted to work with me, and she sent it to one billion publishers and received one billion…

— Liza Campbell

The publishers, as I remember at the very beginning of my career, wrote letters with their fountain pens. A letter is different from a…

— James Salter