Back Quote by Frank Deford

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 worked for a publishing company in Hollywood.

— Mac Davis

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

My first thought when I started in journalism is that I wanted to work for a fashion publication like 'Vogue' or 'Glamour.'

— Malika Andrews

By the time I came to the States, I really understood how a magazine works. I came to 'Vogue' as creative director, and three…

— Anna Wintour

I was at CBS News on a fluke. I replaced somebody who was on vacation. I worked as a copy boy, then became a…

— James L. Brooks

I worked at 'Mademoiselle,' and then it shut, and I worked at 'GQ' for three years, during which I was freelancing. I wrote for…

— Courtney A. Kemp

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 quit my job just to quit. I didn't quit my job to write fiction. I just didn't want to work anymore.

— Don DeLillo

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

— Lynne Truss

I wanted to be a writer and I ended up being a writer.

— Lady Colin Campbell

Regardless, I did rise to the editorship before embarking on a freelance career in the late '60's.

— Brock Yates