When I first came to New York, I would scream like a girl and run to the other side of the street if there was a pigeon. Now I can face off with a pigeon. 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