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I worked as a carpenter for a few years. I began writing. I wrote a book about my time in Africa - that came out in 1988 - called 'The Village of Waiting.'

— George Packer

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

I began my writing career in a very isolated place and time.

— Lois McMaster Bujold

I was working for Time-Life Books from 1962 to 1970, as a staff writer, and after that, I was a journalist. Eventually, I became an editor at 'The Saturday Review' and 'Horizon.'

— Edmund White

Writing was my first occupation, begun at age 23.

— Johanna Lindsey

I quit my job, and went ashore to become a writer.

— Theodore Sturgeon

When I was writing my first two books I was also freelancing and teaching and doing other odd jobs.

— Curtis Sittenfeld

After seven years of writing - and working many jobs to support my family - I finally got published.

— Lloyd Alexander

As I mentioned, I was a carpenter for a time.

— Jack Vance

I knew that you couldn't make a living simply writing about the outdoors, so I made an effort from the beginning of my freelance career to write about other subjects.

— Jon Krakauer

I started writing as a child. But I didn't think of myself actually writing until I was in college. And I had gone to Africa as a sophomore or something - no, maybe junior - and wrote a book of poems. And that was my beginning. I published that book.

— Alice Walker

✗Opposing Perspectives

Before I began concentrating on writing, in my free time I was an artist, making and selling etchings illustrating stories based on my readings in classical literature.

— Adrienne Mayor