Benefits Quote by Debra Dean

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 a crummy profession, but a good hobby.

— Paavo Haavikko

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

— Lydia Davis

I think the crucial thing in the writing career is to find what you want to do and how you fit in. What somebody…

— James A. Michener

Writing seems to be the only profession people imagine you can do by thinking about doing it.

— Anna Quindlen

Writing is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness.

— Georges Simenon

Writing, for me, is the best occupation I can think of, and there is nothing in the world I would rather do.

— Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

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

— Neal Gabler

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

— Rebecca Serle

Writing doesn't leave much time for hobbies, unless you consider that I began writing as a hobby and have made the hobby into a…

— Nelson DeMille

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've had a few jobs, but if you want to be a writer, you're better off getting a job that doesn't require that you…

— John Cooper Clarke