A Quote by Mary Roach

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

Mary Roach

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Mary Roach
American - Author
Born: March 20, 1959

I have been writing since 11th grade, and have a few features that have almost gotten off the ground. I really want one of my features to come to life.

Devon Bostick

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

Emma Donoghue

I've been writing full-time since 1978.

Alan Dean Foster

I end up writing something every day, since I develop six or seven things at the same time - soccer columns, this and that.

Aleksandar Hemon

So for a long time, I did a lot of freelance writing in addition to writing fiction and such - I was a food critic for a magazine for a bit, I did writing for nonprofits and political things, I was the editorial consultant for another magazine for a couple years, all sorts of jobs.

Tod Goldberg

I'd been writing stories since I was a child. I wrote little books for my mom and bound them myself with needle and thread. Mostly, they were about my pets.

Tess Gerritsen

Yes, of course, I've been dreaming about it since I was a kid. Even now, I'm 31 years-old now and I've never been on a cover of a magazine. It makes you feel in such a way to do it with my signature guitar and to have it be Guitar Player magazine, it was really just an amazing experience.

Nita Strauss

I've been singing since I was 8 years old and working in clubs since I was 14. I've been working full time since I was 16.

Randy Travis

I've been writing since I was sixteen. At first, I wrote mostly short stories and poetry. The first thing I ever had published was a poem about a football game. It was printed in my local newspaper.

Jerry Spinelli

Before I ever heard about '60 Minutes,' I had been a writer, a columnist for 'Life' magazine and for 'Newsweek' - that was about as high as you could get in column writing. I care about my writing. I'm not a quack-quack TV journalist.

Shana Alexander

I loved writing for the school newspaper. I liked to report and interview people, but I really liked to write columns, funny columns.

Bonnie Jo Campbell

There were only two times in my life when I've actually felt down about things and gotten myself into a full mental mess. One of the times was in 1982. I had a horrible time for a few months and felt pretty desperate. Then again in 1984, for various reasons, not all of them within my control. Since then, I just wander in and out of black moods.

Robert Smith

For ten years, I wrote regular columns about science for women's magazines, and to my knowledge I'm the only person in the world who can say that. This has no kudos in either the science-writing world or the academic world, but it's one of the most challenging things I've ever done. It's much harder to write about cosmology for a magazine like Vogue than for the New York Times, which I've also written for, because you have to imagine that on the page opposite there'll be an advertisement for eyeliner, or an article about the latest trends in skirt length.

Margaret Wertheim

I've been interested in autism since I've known about it, which is more or less since I've been writing.

William Gibson

Far more thought and care go into the composition of any prominent ad in a newspaper or magazine than go into the writing of their features and editorials.