Books Quote by Joseph Kanon

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

— Lynne Truss

Early on in life I knew that I was a writer, that I just wanted to write, I love books, I love literature and…

— Robert Greene

I wanted to be involved with literature. I certainly wasn't going to be able to write for a living, and I didn't have enough…

— Jonathan W. Galassi

I have an English literature degree. I wanted to be the next great American novelist from a very early age, but I put it…

— Daniel Suarez

I first moved to New York, like many twenty-somethings before me, to be a grown up. I was attending an MFA program in the…

— Rebecca Serle

I did a lot of freelance desk publishing jobs when I graduated from college. I sort of earned a living doing that while I…

— Jason Katims

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 master's degree was in English literature.

— Sylvia Browne

In 1982, when I was almost 26 years old, I decided I wanted to write fiction. I'd majored in journalism in college, and I'd…

— Cynthia Kadohata

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

— Jackie Kennedy

I graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles, with an English literature degree and travelled for a year before going to work.

— Natalie Massenet

By the time I started high school, I knew I wanted to be a writer. After graduating from Smith College in Massachusetts, I moved…

— Cynthia Voigt