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title: "1 Make Writing Quotes By Rosellen Brown"
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> [It’s a job. It’s not a hobby. You don’t write the way you build a model airplane. You have to sit down and work, to schedule your time and stick to it. Even if it’s just for an hour or…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rosellen-brown/it-s-a-job-it-s-not-a-hobby-you-don-t-write-the-way-you-build-a-model/)

[Rosellen Brown](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rosellen-brown/)

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## More by Rosellen Brown

> [If Henry James were still with us, he'd not only approve of Paris, He Said, he could have written it himself, though without his…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rosellen-brown/if-henry-james-were-still-with-us-he-d-not-only-approve-of-paris-he/)

[Rosellen Brown](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rosellen-brown/)

> [It’s a job. It’s not a hobby. You don’t write the way you build a model airplane. You have to sit down and work,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rosellen-brown/it-s-a-job-it-s-not-a-hobby-you-don-t-write-the-way-you-build-a-model/)

[Rosellen Brown](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rosellen-brown/)

> [ \[On book promotion:\] The reward for writing well appears to be not to be able to do it for a long time. ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rosellen-brown/on-book-promotion-the-reward-for-writing-well-appears-to-be-not-to-be/)

[Rosellen Brown](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rosellen-brown/)

> [One of the marvels of personality is its resistance to prediction. One man's paralyzing trauma is another man's invitation to take control of his…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rosellen-brown/one-of-the-marvels-of-personality-is-its-resistance-to-prediction-one/)

[Rosellen Brown](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rosellen-brown/)

> [The pity of living only once is that there is no way, ever, to be sure which sorrows are inevitable.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rosellen-brown/the-pity-of-living-only-once-is-that-there-is-no-way-ever-to-be-sure/)

[Rosellen Brown](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rosellen-brown/)

> [Anne Pitkin's poems have such lyrical sweep, such a sensitive eye for the natural world as it touches the human, that reading Winter Arguments…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rosellen-brown/anne-pitkin-s-poems-have-such-lyrical-sweep-such-a-sensitive-eye-for/)

[Rosellen Brown](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rosellen-brown/)

> [All schoolchildren are hostages to red tape and fiscal insufficiency.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rosellen-brown/all-schoolchildren-are-hostages-to-red-tape-and-fiscal-insufficiency/)

[Rosellen Brown](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rosellen-brown/)

> [They are the kind of people who are embarrassed by money, a dead middle-class giveaway. Poor people are not embarrassed by money and are…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rosellen-brown/they-are-the-kind-of-people-who-are-embarrassed-by-money-a-dead/)

[Rosellen Brown](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rosellen-brown/)

> [Many of us write because we are readers and have grown up in a long tradition, and we want to be able to add…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rosellen-brown/many-of-us-write-because-we-are-readers-and-have-grown-up-in-a-long/)

[Rosellen Brown](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rosellen-brown/)

> [When it comes time to do your own life, you either perpetuate your childhood or you stand on it and finally kick it out…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rosellen-brown/when-it-comes-time-to-do-your-own-life-you-either-perpetuate-your/)

[Rosellen Brown](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rosellen-brown/)

> [“Like deathbed conversions, last paragraph soul-saving does not convince.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rosellen-brown/like-deathbed-conversions-last-paragraph-soul-saving-does-not-convince/)

[Rosellen Brown](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rosellen-brown/)

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