Art Quote by Tony Hillerman

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

But even before that, in 1980 I went so far as to write a book about what had happened. And I wrote all about…

— Patty Hearst

After working as a journalist I went to a writing program at Johns Hopkins. It was interesting because it was neither journalistic nor historical,…

— Iris Chang

I have written my work, not as an essay which is to win the applause of the moment, but as a possession for all…

— Thucydides

I went into journalism to learn the craft of writing and to get close to the world I wanted to write about -- police…

— Michael Connelly

After college, I was burdened with student loans to repay, no financial cushion, so I wasn't in a position to bet everything on a…

— Chris Pavone

I did a lot of my writing as though I was an academic, doing some piece of research as perfectly as possible.

— A. S. Byatt

I wrote for my high school and college newspapers. It was my only creative outlet in those days.

— Soupy Sales

I held a variety of jobs - most notably ten years working in universities - and kept on writing.

— Thomas Perry

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

— Lloyd Alexander

I've always been a writer, and in high school, I was the editor of my school newspaper and I got a writing scholarship. It's…

— Zoe Lister-Jones

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

— Jennifer Weiner