Difficult Quote by Caroline B. Cooney

I love writing and do not know why it is considered such a difficult, agonizing profession. I love all of it, thinking up the…

— Caroline B. Cooney

Writing is hard. It takes commitment and determination and a good part talent. It's not an afterthought, an addendum - it's a career.

— Rebecca Serle

Writing is not a genteel profession. It's quite nasty and tough and kind of dirty.

— Rosemary Mahoney

Writing is probably the least glamorous profession there is. This doesn't change when you become an author.

— Rebecca Serle

To me, writing is not a profession. You might as well call living a profession. Or having children. Anything you can't help doing.

— Vicki Baum

Writing is something that you can never do as well as it can be done. It is a perpetual challenge and it is more…

— Ernest Hemingway

Writing is not a profession, it's an addiction.

— Neal Gabler

Writing is really hard, and it's really a skill.

— Caroline Leavitt

Writing ... is a profession that can only be learned by writing.

— Simone de Beauvoir

Writing is one of the few professions in which you can psychoanalyse yourself, get rid of hostilities and frustrations in public, and get paid…

— Octavia Butler

If writing seems hard, it's because it is hard. It's one of the hardest things people do.

— William Zinsser

Writing is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness.

— Georges Simenon