Books Quote by Laura Moser

I'm a writer. I've been a journalist for my whole adult life.

— Stephen J. Dubner

After starting as a journalist for newspapers and magazines, I began to write books and had success with a novel and four nonfiction books…

— Jane Goldman

I started out as a writer of fiction, but nobody wanted to publish my work as a young man. So I decided to put…

— Fred Kaplan

When I wrote my first book, 'The Tennis Party', my overriding concern was that I didn't write the autobiographical first novel. I was so,…

— Sophie Kinsella

I like to think I've grown as a writer and taken some risks, but I still consider myself to be a literary writer.

— Kim Edwards

I really enjoy doing both, but I didn't write nonfiction until 1994.

— Jonathan Franzen

I obviously prefer writing novels but I take my journalism very seriously, and I enjoy doing it between novels. It gives me an opportunity…

— Mordecai Richler

I had a 20-year career. I have two children. The advantage of writing later in my life is that I already had a whole…

— Amor Towles

I've always been interested in setting my stories against a big event, the importance of which my younger readers are slowly becoming aware of…

— Morris Gleitzman

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'm a professional. So before I published any novels, I'd always been writing stories.

— Jess Walter

I wrote about four novels before I wrote a word of journalism.

— Francine Prose