Advice Quote by Anthony Bourdain

I started writing in fourth grade and never stopped. I faked my way through high school and nearly was flushed from college - I…

— W. Bruce Cameron

Writing is not the easiest way to make a living. Your work long hours, usually all by yourself. It is not a way to…

— Stephen Ambrose

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

I had some bad jobs when I was young. Writing is not one of them. If you're fortunate enough to reach my age, to…

— Richard Flanagan

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

Writing is very hard work and knowing what you're doing the whole time.

— Shelby Foote

You can always find something better to do than writing when you're at home.

— John Cooper Clarke

People say writing is really hard. That's very unfair to those who are doing real jobs. People who work in the fields or fix…

— Paul Theroux

I actually went into writing first to supplement my income, which was a strange thing to do, and actually failed.

— Steve Toltz

I don't really think of writing as a career. It's something that happened to me. By working harder than I knew it was possible…

— Susan Cheever

I would recommend, definitely, developing a 'day job' that you like - don't expect to make money writing!

— Lydia Davis

Everybody has a hard job. All real work is hard. My work happened also to be undoable. Morning after morning for 50 years, I…

— Philip Roth