Financial stability Quote by Alice Driver

“Most days, writing simply requires work-ethic, discipline, clarity, focus, time. Other days...it will demand absolutely everything of you.”

— Christy Hall

“People think writing is an easy job, and in some ways it is. Flexible hours, no boss, no real structure . . . but working without…

— Marc Levy

“Writing is a lot like sex: at first you do it because you enjoy it. Then you find yourself doing it with others. But…

— Michael J. Goulding

“Writing is a craft and needs constant practice.”

— Patricia Highsmith

I believe that, in an ideal world, writers would feel free to write what matters to them without having to consider success, failure, the…

— Claire Messud

“Writing is an occupation in which you have to keep proving your talent to people who have none.”

— Jules Renard 1890

Writing is a wholetime job: no professional writer can afford only to write when he feels like it.

— W. Somerset Maugham

“Writing is an act of love. If it is not it is only handwriting. It consists in obeying the driving force of plants and…

— Jean Cocteau

“Writing is a manual labor of the mind: a job, like laying pipe.”

— John Gregory Dunne

“no writing is a waste of time--no creative work where the feelings, the imagination, the intelligence must work.”

— Brenda Ueland

The thing about writing is not to talk, but to do it; no matter how bad or even mediocre it is, the process and…

— Sylvia Plath

“Writing is more than a craft; it is a way of life. Everything you see or do becomes part of what you write.”

— H.P. Oliver