Career Quote by Sandra Brown

I got my master's degree and then started working as a production assistant. I was writing my debut film, the crime drama 'Little Woods,'…

— Nia DaCosta

I always wanted to be some kind of writer or newspaper reporter. But after college... I did other things.

— Jackie Kennedy

I was sort of a jack-of-all-trades in show business for a long time. I was a singer and a dancer, and then I got…

— Christopher Walken

I did a lot of freelance desk publishing jobs when I graduated from college. I sort of earned a living doing that while I…

— Jason Katims

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

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

— Lois McMaster Bujold

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 first moved to New York, like many twenty-somethings before me, to be a grown up. I was attending an MFA program in the…

— Rebecca Serle

So for a long time, I did a lot of freelance writing in addition to writing fiction and such - I was a food…

— Tod Goldberg

By the time I started high school, I knew I wanted to be a writer. After graduating from Smith College in Massachusetts, I moved…

— Cynthia Voigt

I eventually got a job with a television company, started to see how exciting journalism could be as a career, and decided that was…

— Anne Robinson

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