My first day as an intern in the books department at Cosmopolitan also happened to be the day the O.J. Simpson verdict was announced. John Searles More Quotes by John Searles More Quotes From John Searles I stayed at 'Cosmo' well beyond my internship, moving up the ranks over some 15 years to become books editor, then brand director, then editor-at-large - editing everything from an excerpt of Gore Vidal's memoir to writing some of those juicy cover lines myself. John Searles myself editing writing moving I think I'm more sympathetic to writers, to the work and the struggle and the craft of it, than when I was in graduate school at NYU and was very judgmental. John Searles think struggle work school I take stuff from real life and try to make a character out of it. And I try to live the world of the characters a little bit. John Searles live character life world I don't write to a genre. John Searles write genre
