knowing now that the job of writing was as much about…

I'm gonna fix that last joke by taking out all the words and adding new ones.

— Mitch Hedberg

It's a job. When I'm writing I'm going to do it five to six days a week and I'm going to work for four…

— Candace Bushnell

If I had to give up everything else and keep just one aspect of the job, I'd have to keep writing because I love…

— Colin Quinn

My day job is writing for television. So I've been on enough sets, and I know how things work.

— Tom Scharpling

When it is going well, it is the best job [writing] in the world. For those few hours, you are god, in control of…

— Michael Scott

I was nearly fired from my second job, which was writing press releases for Boston's public television station.

— Elinor Lipman

I don't call acting a real job, and writing is a hobby.

— Joel Edgerton

Whatever job I had, I was always writing like crazy. All I ever liked about offices was being able to type up stories on…

— J. K. Rowling

My job is writing for people to enjoy and then writing about a broader and a deeper world.

— Walter Mosley

“I don't believe in writer's block. Who can function working seven days a week at at job. It's the same with writing. Take a…

— Lillian R. Melendez

For me, writing is fun. The day I quit my job and take up writing full time, writing will become just another job. A…

— Ravi Subramanian

The joke is the purest, most essential form of storytelling. Every word has to count.

— Paul Auster

You see, the interesting thing about books, as opposed, say, to films, is that it's always just one person encountering the book, it's not…

— Paul Auster

“But the secret of good writing is to strip every sentence to its cleanest components. Every words that serves no function, every long word…

— William Zinsser

Literature transforms and intensifies ordinary language, deviates systematically from everyday speech. If you approach me at a bus stop and murmur Thou still unravished…

— Terry Eagleton