Agency Quote by Joanna Scott

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

— Lynne Truss

I spent 20 years of my career primarily being a writer for hire.

— Frank Darabont

I was working for Time-Life Books from 1962 to 1970, as a staff writer, and after that, I was a journalist. Eventually, I became…

— Edmund White

I had been writing professionally since 1988

— Laura Hillenbrand

At 19, while studying at St Xavier's College and majoring in literature and sociology, I got my first job as a copywriter. It was…

— Zoya Akhtar

It was 1996 and I was at a crossroads in my career. I had been working in Hollywood as a writer and was very…

— Robert Greene

I started writing juvenile novels around 1985. I never really thought of it as a career, but more as a way to make a living.

— Natsuo Kirino

I worked in the mail room at CAA when I was in high school. I worked in the literary department, too. That was my…

— Matthew Specktor

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

— Brock Yates

When I was in my mid-twenties, I was a copy editor at Doubleday, and for a brief period, it was my job to help…

— Chris Pavone

When I got back into the film business after college, I started out as a production assistant.

— Mike Lookinland

I got my master's degree and then started working as a production assistant. I was writing my debut film, the crime drama 'Little Woods,'…

— Nia DaCosta