After Quote by Samantha Shannon

After seven years of writing - and working many jobs to support my family - I finally got published.

— Lloyd Alexander

I opted for a freelance writing career. I was lucky enough to have the means to do it.

— Matt Ridley

I've discovered my vocation. I want to be a writer.

— Paulo Coelho

I wanted to be a novelist for so long.

— Alice Sebold

I worked in the book publishing business for nearly two decades before I turned my attention to writing, first with a couple ghostwriting projects,…

— Chris Pavone

I began my writing career in a very isolated place and time.

— Lois McMaster Bujold

Wrote my first "novel" when I was six. Studied a bit in college, but then pursued history... But when I started writing professionally, it…

— David B. Coe

At the very beginning, I was a page at Letterman, and I freelanced for any place that would let me write any word. I…

— Ben Schwartz

I was a freelancer all through my twenties. I did about one story a month and I wanted to write fiction, so the stories…

— Candace Bushnell

I had been writing professionally since 1988

— Laura Hillenbrand

While writing my first 90 books, I was magazine editor, publisher, book publisher, executive, etc., so I was established in publishing. three of my…

— Jerry B. Jenkins

Before I wrote my first novel, 'The Expats,' I spent nearly two decades at various arms of publishing houses such as Random House, Workman,…

— Chris Pavone