Writing is not my job.

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

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 think my goal is to find a way to spend all of my time writing. I mean, sort of; true success is I'm…

— Shonda Rhimes