Book Quote by Iris Chang

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

My first real writing job was at 'Rolling Stone,' so I wrote about rock-and-roll and politics and the like. At the time, I really…

— Tim Cahill

Wrote my first "novel" when I was six. Studied a bit in college, but then pursued history... But when I started writing professionally, it…

— David B. Coe

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

— Jennifer Weiner

Well, my background is journalism. I don't have any creative-writing experience except for one class I took as a sophomore in college.

— Dave Eggers

I write and teach creative nonfiction. I was a reporter.

— Eileen Pollack

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

— Nithya Menen

I went into journalism in a grandiose way. I thought maybe I'd do a little journalism whilst I write the great novel of all…

— Neal Ascherson

I was a political journalist; I came to writing novels through an interest in politics and power.

— Robert Harris

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

— Jackie Kennedy

I went to classes on writing for film and theatre as well as short stories at Stanford.

— Brook Lopez

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