Assistants Quote by Terri Windling

My first job out of college was as an editorial assistant in a New York publishing house. Being an editorial assistant is the purgatory…

— Lincoln Child

I was a newspaper editor in high school, and I truly thought of journalism as a career. I loved it.

— Ed Asner

I started out as the assistant to the editor-in-chief at 'Ebony' magazine. She took me under her wing and gave me opportunities to take…

— Elaine Welteroth

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

My husband is an editor, and in fact he was the first person who hired me as an assistant editor. Then we fell in…

— Kari Skogland

My first job was as a groundskeeper at the local ballpark in the town where I grew up. There was a lot of down…

— Owen King

After university, I got a job sub-editing and for years I was a literary editor.

— Lynne Truss

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

— Jennifer Weiner

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

The job of an editor in a publishing house is the dullest, hardest, most exciting, exasperating and rewarding of perhaps any job in the…

— John Hall Wheelock

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