Edmund White Quotes

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

Actually, I graduated from university as a journalist.

Since I make my living as a literary journalist, not a book scout, I spend inordinate amounts of time either reading or writing.

I'm a writer. I've been a journalist for my whole adult life.

[Margot Hentoff] was an editor there for a time as well as a writer.

I knew I was going to be a journalist when I was eight years old and I saw the printing presses rolling at the Sydney newspaper where my dad worked as a proofreader.

I thought I would write non-fiction. I thought I would enter the New York literary scene as copy editor, work my way up, and then write my own books.

I've been a teacher at the college level, in composition mostly, and I've been an editor on magazines.

My dad was an editor and a writer, and that's actually what I aspired to be.

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 am a book reviewer. I write for a glossy magazine called 'SCI FI.' The money is not life-changing, but it's a low-stress gig. Publishers send me their books. More than I could possibly read. I pick a few and write about them, put a very few others on the shelf, to be perused at my leisure, someday.

After starting as a journalist for newspapers and magazines, I began to write books and had success with a novel and four nonfiction books for young adults.

There was a part of me that always wanted to be an editor.

I've basically worked as a journalist and a writer.

I'm a journalist. I've been a journalist ever since I was 18.

I would have loved to have been a broadcast journalist. I'd even love to be the weather girl. I have to watch the weather every night; I'm just obsessed.

I decided to make my living as a magazine writer. And I found that it was really easy and fun.

Lilian Ross was a - veteran writer for The New Yorker. She, in fact, brought me to The New Yorker many years ago.

People generally don't recognize how long it takes to conceive, publish, and write a book.

My favorite thing is still journalism. I'm almost 50. This has been my life ever since I was in college.

I was editor of my high school literary magazine and a reporter for the school newspaper.

It's easy to get published once you have written a really good book and the hard part, 99 percent of what you need to worry about, is really finishing it.

I was thinking of applying to the 'Guardian' for a job after university. Yeah, I wanted to be one of the people who writes stories in G2.

My friend Leonid Shvets is a long-time journalist, commentator, and editor. He was born in Belarus and came to Kharkiv, in eastern Ukraine, to go to school, then moved to Kiev for work.

I had gone to work for 'Newsweek', left 'Newsweek' and went to work for 'Vanity Fair,' and then went back to 'Newsweek'. I came back to 'SI' as a contract writer.