Jen Lancaster Quotes

And it was a huge emotional thing to leave the law and become unemployed - to be a student again.

More and more people are getting turned out of their corporations and laid off. As more people leave that behind, they're tapping into their own skill sets and talents and doing something for themselves.

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

I had been laid off from 'Entertainment Weekly 'right before I started writing 'Gone Girl.'

It was only after five years in the army, when I was having to do a very boring job in a very boring place, that I thought: 'Why not try writing a novel?' partly out of youthful arrogance and partly because there had been a long line of writers in my mother's family.

I was a government employee in the morning and a writer in the evening.

I instantly chucked my academic ambitions and began writing fiction full-time.

In 1996, after 29 years as an artist for Marvel Comics, I got fired - 56 years old, two children still in college, and no job.

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.

I actually got fired from 'The O.C.'

When I first quit my day job, I was terrified. I called my editors and said I'm trying to make a go of this, and they threw every contract at me they could. And for two years, I had a book or an anthology out every month.

When you have a large amount of the workforce being laid off, some of them have no other choice but to go out there and invent something.

I took a writing class in college, liked it, and my first year out of school I couldn't get a job, so I wrote a play.

My son is now an 'entrepreneur.' That's what you're called when you don't have a job.

I was freelancing for years in Cork and around. I also wrote freelance pieces for 'The Irish Times.'

The decision to write full time was made when I was twenty-eight years old and had just had two small plays accepted for BBC Radio.

Until I became a nurse, no one had ever asked me to sign a book contract. I had been writing for decades, read thousands of books, and even worked in publishing for 10 years. Who knew that nursing would be my break?

I opted for a freelance writing career. I was lucky enough to have the means to do it.

I have written more than 100 novels and novellas since 1983 - I was first published in 1985. There was an overlap of three years with my teaching career, but finally I felt good enough about my writing career to quit teaching and write full time.

When we moved to Australia in 2008, I decided to try to live off the writing.

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

Yes. I am writing full-time. Which is strange. It feels like not having a job.

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.

In 1989, I retired from Bell Laboratories to become a full-time writer. Not that I didn't enjoy my engineering career, but rather I liked being a novelist just a bit better.

I used to work in the video game industry before I became a full-time writer.