Lived Quote by Heinrich Boll

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 wrote for my university newspaper and went on to freelance for a Los Angeles publication in my first months after graduating from UC…

— Harris Faulkner

In my 20s, I was a freelance writer with little money and living in a rabbit warren one-and-a-half-bedroom with a roommate.

— Alissa Quart

I started off in journalism 16 years ago in Stockholm, and I wrote for a few different publications for many years. I've also worked…

— Magnus Larsson

Once when I was a fugitive, I was working for a law firm in Denver.

— Kevin Mitnick

I worked in the book publishing business for nearly two decades before I turned my attention to writing, first with a couple ghostwriting projects,…

— Chris Pavone

I went and worked at a TV station in Stillwater. I was actually account manager for commercial accounts, selling ad space and everything.

— Daniel Cormier

I've lived a life of unplanned freelance employment.

— Lawrence O'Donnell

I was working at the telephone company in the late '80s as a service representative.

— Maxine Waters

My dad was a news editor for a Brazilian news station, and they had offices in New York and London.

— Morena Baccarin

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

— Kevin Barry

In 1958, I decided that I was going to live in Europe permanently. So in 1959 I moved to Lugano, Switzerland.

— Norman Granz