Collectors Quote by Cleveland Amory

Any writer worth the name is always getting into one thing or getting out of another thing.

— Fannie Hurst

“When dealing with writers it breaks down like this: a regular writer is your average everyday megalomaniac. Like every artist, there's a part of…

— Hannah Strom-Martin

A professional writer is an amateur who didn't quit.

— Richard Bach

A professional writer is someone who writes just as well when they're not inspired as when they are.

— Philip Pullman

What I adore is supreme professionalism. I’m bored by writers who can write only when it’s raining.

— Noel Coward

The only reason for being a professional writer is that you can't help it.

— Leo Rosten

I know writers, and they seem to be the most disgruntled part of the art world.

— Jonathan Pryce

Being a writer is a rather hazardous occupation and there is a horribly high rate of writers who barely have the money for the…

— Herbert Gold

Writers were never meant to be professionals. Writing is not a profession, it is an activity, an essentially amateur occupation. It is what you…

— Fay Weldon

I think writers tend to be experience junkies, and I think they also tend to want to be on the outside looking in.

— Augusten Burroughs

Some of the most untidy writers have also been the most productive. Iris Murdoch, for instance, wrote a good 30 books in a house…

— Craig Brown

A professional writer is a joke. You write because you can't do anything else, and then you have another job.

— Jamaica Kincaid