Writing is my profession. Photography is my hobby.

Rather than a profession, photography has always been a passion for me, a passion closer to an obsession.

— Marc Riboud

Photography is a hobby born out of my time in undergrad at USC. It is more of a pleasurable hobby, a stress reliever. I…

— Lee Thompson Young

This profession [photography] is deserving of attention and respect equal to that accorded painting, literature, music and architecture.

— Ansel Adams

My father taught me photography. It was his hobby, and we had a small darkroom in the fruit cellar of our basement. It was…

— Sam Abell

Writing ... is a profession that can only be learned by writing.

— Simone de Beauvoir

Writers were never meant to be professionals. Writing is not a profession, it is an activity, an essentially amateur occupation. It is what you…

— Fay Weldon

Writing is not a profession, occupation or job; it is not a way of life: it is a comprehensive response to life.

— Gregory Mcdonald

The mystique and the false glamour of the writing profession grow partly out of a mistaken belief that people who can express profound ideas…

— Janet Burroway

To me, writing is not a profession. You might as well call living a profession. Or having children. Anything you can't help doing.

— Vicki Baum

Beware of self-indulgence. The romance surrounding the writing profession carries several myths: that one must suffer in order to be creative; that one must…

— David Brin

“Writing- the profession in which you stare at a computer screen, stare out the window, type a few words, then curse repeatedly.”

— Drew Goodman

Writing seems to be the only profession people imagine you can do by thinking about doing it.

— Anna Quindlen

“Writing is a profession that has no real career structure and your best advice when you hit a difficulty is probably going to come…

— Sara Sheridan

“And though creative writing as an intellectual exercise may be pursued with profit by anyone, writing as a profession is not a job for…

— Wallace Stegner

“I have never thought of writing as a profession. It is a solitary independent activity in which practice can never bestow seniority.”

— John Berger