Adventure Quote by Walter Dean Myers

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

— Soupy Sales

I was writing everything. I grew up in Albany, New York, and I was never any farther west than Syracuse, and I wrote Westerns.…

— Donald E. Westlake

As I said, I had no publisher for What a Carve Up! while I was writing it, so all we had to live off…

— Jonathan Coe

Before I published anything, I dreamed of publication, but I didn't actually write for it. I imagined that writing for an audience was something…

— Ariel Gore

I always wrote as a vehicle for expression but did not try writing for publication until my mid-thirties, at which time I started writing…

— Elizabeth Berg

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

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

I considered that I had to write stories about the people I had met, with whom I'd worked, the history of my books -…

— Anatoly Rybakov

My career as a magazine writer was largely prefaced on the idea of curiosity, to go on adventures and weasel my way into the…

— John Hodgman

My first real writing job was at 'Rolling Stone,' so I wrote about rock-and-roll and politics and the like. At the time, I really…

— Tim Cahill

I took to writing as my medicine to help me stay afloat in acting career journey. I wrote about me breaking hearts, and my…

— Omari Hardwick

I write and teach creative nonfiction. I was a reporter.

— Eileen Pollack