I basically make my living writing songs, so I've been…

I didn't want to be looked at as a below-the-poverty-line kid. But now I think, that trailer is where I got the ambition. The…

— Bam Adebayo

I make my living writing songs and, you know, I'm not a show biz kind of guy.

— J. J. Cale

On 'Downsizing,' I had a trailer, and I got to bring my dog to work, and I thought, 'I've made it: I'm bringing my…

— Hong Chau

Not explicitly, no. Compared to this enormous, relentless evolutionary activity in the built environment, writing is small potatoes.

— Teju Cole

My first job was with the Burns Detective Agency. They sent me over to the East River to guard coal barges during these god-awful…

— Sam Shepard

When you first quit your regular job and you become a full-time writer, you are paralyzed with free time. You have so much free…

— Matt de la Pena

I'm a recording studio guy, an engineer, a songwriter and a guitar player, in that order.

— J. J. Cale

I'd say writing songs is, for me, as much playing the tape recorder as it is playing guitar or writing words.

— J. J. Cale

If you make your living writing, and you can't write anything, it's over. It's very frightening.

— Sting

Before I became a writer, I was running a jazz bar in the center of Tokyo, which means that I worked in filthy air…

— Haruki Murakami

Writing is not apart from living. Writing is a kind of double living.

— Catherine Drinker Bowen

The traditional statement about language is that it is in itself living, and that writing is the dead part of language.

— Jacques Derrida

It's very unlikely that a writer is going to make a living by writing. So then the question is: how do you balance work,…

— Kelly Link

You won't make a living writing until you learn to write when you don't want to.

— Chelsea Cain

“Yeah, I know what your English Professor tried to tell you. But if your English Professor could make a living writing fiction, they would…

— Dean Wesley Smith