College Quote by Jane Haddam

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

— Lynne Truss

In addition to being a writer, I'm a librarian - professionally trained and everything.

— Theresa Breslin

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

— Eileen Pollack

I've basically worked as a journalist and a writer.

— Laura Moser

In actual fact, I have been an academic - a college and university teacher and scholar - for much of the last 45 years,…

— Shirley Geok-lin Lim

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've been in various roles in TV - writer, producer, associate director.

— Smriti Irani

I'm an author. And writers write books. And writing books is a full-time career.

— Marianne Williamson

I worked at all kinds of jobs, mostly commercial editing.

— Marilyn Hacker

When I got out of college, I had to make a living, and I started writing for magazines, and it felt like the perfect…

— Peter Heller

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

— Jennifer Weiner

My dad was an editor and a writer, and that's actually what I aspired to be.

— Anne M. Mulcahy