Kevin Barry Quotes

The opportunity to write for the 'L.A. Weekly' has been one of the better breaks that has come my way in a long time.

I freelanced for the 'Boston Phoenix.'

From 1999 on - until 2003 - I covered publishing in a weekly column for Wired.com and wrote for several other publications - altogether writing over 150 articles.

Writing was something I always liked, but it wasn't a career until I was laid off from my executive position in my 30s. I started a website because I was bored, unemployed and angry.

I do everything from home. I broadcast commentaries for CBS News Radio every day - from home, on a disk that I mail in. I write a weekly op-ed piece for the 'New York Daily News,' and any books or plays or movies that I'm crazy enough to write, I do that from home.

I've been writing full-time since about 1984 - mostly magazine features and columns.

I wanted to be an editor or a journalist, I wasn't really interested in being an entrepreneur, but I soon found I had to become an entrepreneur in order to keep my magazine going.

It wasn't until I was 26 or 25 when I started sending work out to magazines.

Well, I'm a writer by nature, and I got a little bit - a little taste of a daily fast-paced writing job, writing career, and I loved it.

I'd much rather do an obviously commercial writing project than get a day job.

I've been a freelancer my entire career, and, at any given time, I have several deadlines for all sorts of things, whether it's some magazine piece or ad copywriting or anything.

The freelance writer is a man who is paid per piece or per word or perhaps.

I was a freelancer all through my twenties. I did about one story a month and I wanted to write fiction, so the stories that I would do were precursors to 'Sex and the City.'

'The Atlantic' really gave me my writing career - even just the conviction to be a writer.

It wasn't until after college that I started writing. I had just applied randomly for jobs in the media and got one on a magazine called 'Pensions World.' So I was writing for a living there and that's when I started my first book.

I've been with Life now for seventeen years and I have written several articles for them and will be doing more writing and do at least two assignments a year besides my writing.

When I came to 'Gourmet,' I had no clue how to run a magazine; for television, I am fascinated to learn about editing.

I want to be a writer someday.

I didn't think being a writer was a fancy thing. It was a job like any other job, except apparently you could do it at home.

I worked at magazines for over 10 years before I even thought of writing a book.

I've been writing full-time since I was 23.

When I started writing a business column 15 years ago, I knew I'd found the perfect job for myself. As a columnist I could pick my own topic, do my own analysis, say what I wanted to say and attribute it to myself. Best of all, I could write in my own voice.

I always just wanted to be a writer, not necessarily a particular kind of writer.

So I went out and bought myself a copy of the Writer and Artist Yearbook, bought lots of magazines and got on the phone and talked to editors about ideas for stories. Pretty soon I found myself hired to do interviews and articles and went off and did them.

For many imaginative writers, working for the press is a fact of their life. But it's best not to like it too much.