Day Quote by Ryan Murphy

I've always been a writer. I started getting paid for writing in college. Where it transitioned from commentary to journalism was in that shift…

— Melissa Gira Grant

I didn't make any money from my writing until much later. I published about 80 stories for nothing. I spent on literature.

— Naguib Mahfouz

I started out as a journalist for about 8 or 9 years, and then I started working in film and television in 2014.

— Cord Jefferson

I've basically worked as a journalist and a writer.

— Laura Moser

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

— Stephen J. Dubner

When you're a writer, you have to write these stories, even if you don't get paid

— Horton Foote

I'm a journalist. I've been a journalist ever since I was 18.

— Margarita Simonyan

I was an English major in college, took a ton of creative writing courses, and was a newspaper reporter for 10 years.

— Jennifer Weiner

I got a journalism degree. I started doing journalism - I interned at 'Cosmopolitan' magazine in the 1970s, which probably wasn't the best place…

— Anne M. Mulcahy

I didn't start off as a journalist; I started off as a poet. My ambition was to practise poetry. Then I found journalism, but…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

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 started as a journalist actually. I graduated from Northwestern Medill School of Journalism and with my degree discovered, once out in the real…

— Garry Marshall