I think my goal is to find a way to spend all of my time…

Whatever's going on with me at the time of writing is going to find its way into the piece. If that doesn't happen, then…

— Quentin Tarantino

Writing is a job, a craft, and you learn it by trying to write every day and by facing the page with humility and…

— Stephen Dobyns

I came up in left-wing political writing. My first job out of college was working as Gore Vidal's fact checker.

— Morgan Neville

Writing is my job. I don't think of it as art.

— Isabel Allende

I don't wait for inspiration. Writing is my job.

— Gail Carson Levine

I do think it is important to look at the writing as a job though and to commit to it like you'd have to…

— Christopher Paul Curtis

Writing is not a job or activity. Nor do I sit at a desk writing for inspiration to strike. Writing is like a different…

— John Marsden

“Writing is not a job description. A great deal of it is luck. Don't do it if you are not a gambler because a…

— Margaret Atwood

To have a successful writing career, you must be willing to sacrifice a great deal. The book, the deadline come first before anything else.…

— Virginia Henley

When you do a writing job for a studio, one of the things you want to do is satisfy the expectations of your employer.…

— Joel Coen

My advice for writers is to get a good day job. It takes the pressure off writing if you have a job that pays…

— Abraham Verghese

Like everyone else, there are days when I don't want to go to work. However, writing is a job like anything else.

— Francine Rivers

I used to love to write. As a child I used to write all the time. I loved to write up until the second…

— Fran Lebowitz

I don't see writing as a communication of something already discovered, as "truths" already known. Rather, I see writing as a job of experiment.…

— William Stafford

“Writing is a job, a talent, but it’s also the place to go in your head. It is the imaginary friend you drink your…

— Ann Patchett Truth and Beauty