Articles Quote by Neil Gaiman

I was editor of my high school literary magazine and a reporter for the school newspaper.

— Jeffery Deaver

Somewhere along the line, I realized that I liked telling stories, and I decided that I would try writing. Ten years later, I finally…

— Janet Evanovich

I was a scholarship minor public school day boy at Ardingly College and later Whitgift School. Then, straight into work as a journalist -…

— Neil Gaiman

When I finally accepted a full time job, I saw that as giving up on my artistic dreams. But three years later, I wrote…

— Sarah Cooper

Like many people, I kicked around, struggled to become a writer, finally got my first full-time job around 27, 28, at 'The Hill' newspaper.…

— David Grann

I was fortunate that I was at newspapers for eight years, where I wrote at least five or six stories every week. You get…

— Chuck Klosterman

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

— Eileen Pollack

Most people write a lot of autobiography, but when I came to write autobiography I discovered that nothing interesting had ever happened to me.…

— W. P. Kinsella

I decided to make my living as a magazine writer. And I found that it was really easy and fun.

— Ann Patchett

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

You know, I began my life as a creative person writing true things for magazines and telling some very honest, straightforward personal essaying for…

— John Hodgman

It took me seven years of writing before I published my first story. And then, the publications trickled in over the next five years.

— Rob Roberge