Melvyn Bragg Quotes

One day I woke up, and I felt like I knew I wanted to be an analyst and a broadcaster.

I studied writing at university, and I actually majored in screenwriting. Then I went to work as a bookseller and then as a sales rep and publicist and then various editorial jobs until I ended up with HarperCollins in Australia.

My goal and my career is definitely not to be famous. That's a really horrible goal, just to be famous for the sake of having fame.

The only reason I got into broadcasting was, I needed money to pay for my junior and senior years at college, and they hired me, those fools!

Obviously my career's important to me and I'm really, really passionate about trying to keep it.

Some people look at TV as a means to an end. I look at it as my career - and one I love.

Yeah, I definitely like broadcasting. And I'm looking forward to getting into it when my career is done.

At the age of 10 I started writing to the BBC about getting into broadcasting. It went on for years. I was 17 when they finally gave in and offered me a job as a bookings clerk in sport and outside broadcast.

I thought I'd get an MBA, and then I could be anything. And I'd write on the side. That was the idea.

I'm not just coming here for a payday. I'm not an old guy at the end of my career looking for a payday. I've got a title to keep.

When I was in the sixth form I presented a cable and satellite programme about music, television and video. I used to do public speaking competitions.

People ask me if I am going to leave TV, but my answer is a big 'no.'

The job I wanted before I was in college was to work for CBS.

I do media work but I don't do broadcast on TV. I'm a content producer and creator, so I just go out there and produce awesome content.

When I began my career, I worked purely for the money.

When I was given my first gig, and I had no real appetite for a career, I just worked to get money so I could live!

I didn't pursue acting to become famous. I was actually just trying to make a living.

I realized that it was great to have a job, but it didn't have anything remotely to do with what I was striving for, so why was I doing it?

Many have no desire to be in it, because their work does not interest them, providing them with neither challenge nor satisfaction, and has no other merit in their eyes than that it leads to a pay-packet at the end of the week.

I thought about starting a novella club because it seemed less ambitious.

I have just wanted to be an actress. That's always been my goal. I didn't want to be famous.

I just work in order to improve myself as an actor which is what I've always done.

I don't know that I ever wanted greatness, on its own. It seems rather like wanting to be an engineer, rather than wanting to design something--or wanting to be a writer, rather than wanting to write. It should be a by-product, not a thing in itself. Otherwise, it's just an ego trip.

I just decided that I didn't want to be in the academic world, because it was [really] too easy for me at the top. But also it wasn't active enough for me.

Writing is a trade ... which is learned by writing.