Age Quote by Liu Cixin

I just fell into the job as a fashion editor at a teen magazine. I was there for two years, and I left there…

— Rachel Zoe

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

— Frank Darabont

My first job was to run a concessions cart. Later, I found a position at the Pacific Film Archive. Thus began a long series…

— Mona Simpson

In my 20s, I was a freelance writer with little money and living in a rabbit warren one-and-a-half-bedroom with a roommate.

— Alissa Quart

I worked in Hollywood as a reader and a would-be writer for about 6 years before I sold my first story.

— Sidney Sheldon

I chose when I was 30 to change my life entirely and become a director and sit in the dark and that's what I…

— Craig Revel Horwood

Really, I've worked my whole adult life at fiction, to try and write fiction.

— Charles Bock

I didn't plan to be a director until I was 35. For years I wanted to do anything but!

— Alexandra Cassavetes

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

— Brock Yates

I got the first job and kept going. Once I got a job, I very much wanted to keep getting jobs, basically. I did…

— Ben Mendelsohn

Like actors and writers who are on and off again in terms of employment, I had a very unstructured life.

— Buzz Aldrin

I held a variety of jobs - most notably ten years working in universities - and kept on writing.

— Thomas Perry